Chronically Short Sleep May Lead to Weight Gain in Adults With Heart Risks
A six-week sleep reduction raised weight by 1 lb and sedentary time by 17.2 minutes a day in adults at cardiometabolic risk, researchers found.
- On Monday, researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center published a study in Annals of Internal Medicine showing adults who shortened their sleep by 90 minutes nightly for six weeks gained about 1 lb.
- Unlike previous lab studies using extreme four-hour sleep limits, this experiment mimicked chronic mild sleep deprivation experienced by roughly 30 percent of adults, according to Prof. Marie-Pierre St-Onge.
- Participants spent an average of 17 minutes more per day being sedentary during the sleep-restriction phase, with men and postmenopausal women logging an average spike of nearly 30 minutes of daily inactivity.
- Lead author Faris Zuraikat warned that while the 1 lb weight gain over six weeks appears modest, extrapolating this trajectory suggests clinically meaningful weight gain and metabolic stress over a full year.
- Researchers concluded these findings support maintaining adequate sleep duration at healthcare encounters to reduce obesity-related risks including type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
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Chronically Short Sleep May Lead to Weight Gain in Adults With Heart Risks
(MedPage Today) -- Shorter periods of sleep over the long term may lead to weight gain in adults at increased risk for cardiometabolic disease, a pooled analysis of two randomized trials suggested. For adults with elevated cardiometabolic risk...
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