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Bidirectional Associations between Physical Activity and Sleep in Early-Elementary-Age Latino Children with Obesity

Low-income Latino children are at high risk for obesity and associated comorbidities. Considering the health benefits of proper sleep habits and physical activity, understanding the patterns, or the relationship between these modifiable factors may help guide intervention strategies to improve overa...

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Autores principales: Merrigan, Justin J., Volgenau, Kristina M., McKay, Allison, Mehlenbeck, Robyn, Jones, Margaret T., Gallo, Sina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7916799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33670086
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports9020026
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author Merrigan, Justin J.
Volgenau, Kristina M.
McKay, Allison
Mehlenbeck, Robyn
Jones, Margaret T.
Gallo, Sina
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Volgenau, Kristina M.
McKay, Allison
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Jones, Margaret T.
Gallo, Sina
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description Low-income Latino children are at high risk for obesity and associated comorbidities. Considering the health benefits of proper sleep habits and physical activity, understanding the patterns, or the relationship between these modifiable factors may help guide intervention strategies to improve overall health in this population. Thus, the purpose was to investigate bidirectional associations between physical activity and sleep among Latino children who are overweight/obese. Twenty-three children (boys, 70%; overweight, 17%; obese, 83%) (age 7.9 ± 1.4 years) wore activity monitors on their wrist for 6 consecutive days (comprising 138 total observations). Hierarchical linear modeling evaluated temporal associations between physical activity (light physical activity, LPA; moderate to vigorous activity, MVPA) and sleep (duration and efficiency). Although there was no association between MVPA and sleep (p > 0.05), daytime LPA was negatively associated with sleep duration that night (estimate ± SE = −10.77 ± 5.26; p = 0.04), and nighttime sleep efficiency was positively associated with LPA the next day (estimate ± SE = 13.29 ± 6.16; p = 0.03). In conclusion, increased LPA may decrease sleep duration that night, but increasing sleep efficiency may increase LPA the following day. Although further investigation is required, these results suggest that improving sleep efficiency may increase the level of physical activity reached among Latino children who are overweight/obese.
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spelling pubmed-79167992021-03-01 Bidirectional Associations between Physical Activity and Sleep in Early-Elementary-Age Latino Children with Obesity Merrigan, Justin J. Volgenau, Kristina M. McKay, Allison Mehlenbeck, Robyn Jones, Margaret T. Gallo, Sina Sports (Basel) Communication Low-income Latino children are at high risk for obesity and associated comorbidities. Considering the health benefits of proper sleep habits and physical activity, understanding the patterns, or the relationship between these modifiable factors may help guide intervention strategies to improve overall health in this population. Thus, the purpose was to investigate bidirectional associations between physical activity and sleep among Latino children who are overweight/obese. Twenty-three children (boys, 70%; overweight, 17%; obese, 83%) (age 7.9 ± 1.4 years) wore activity monitors on their wrist for 6 consecutive days (comprising 138 total observations). Hierarchical linear modeling evaluated temporal associations between physical activity (light physical activity, LPA; moderate to vigorous activity, MVPA) and sleep (duration and efficiency). Although there was no association between MVPA and sleep (p > 0.05), daytime LPA was negatively associated with sleep duration that night (estimate ± SE = −10.77 ± 5.26; p = 0.04), and nighttime sleep efficiency was positively associated with LPA the next day (estimate ± SE = 13.29 ± 6.16; p = 0.03). In conclusion, increased LPA may decrease sleep duration that night, but increasing sleep efficiency may increase LPA the following day. Although further investigation is required, these results suggest that improving sleep efficiency may increase the level of physical activity reached among Latino children who are overweight/obese. MDPI 2021-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7916799/ /pubmed/33670086 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports9020026 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Volgenau, Kristina M.
McKay, Allison
Mehlenbeck, Robyn
Jones, Margaret T.
Gallo, Sina
Bidirectional Associations between Physical Activity and Sleep in Early-Elementary-Age Latino Children with Obesity
title Bidirectional Associations between Physical Activity and Sleep in Early-Elementary-Age Latino Children with Obesity
title_full Bidirectional Associations between Physical Activity and Sleep in Early-Elementary-Age Latino Children with Obesity
title_fullStr Bidirectional Associations between Physical Activity and Sleep in Early-Elementary-Age Latino Children with Obesity
title_full_unstemmed Bidirectional Associations between Physical Activity and Sleep in Early-Elementary-Age Latino Children with Obesity
title_short Bidirectional Associations between Physical Activity and Sleep in Early-Elementary-Age Latino Children with Obesity
title_sort bidirectional associations between physical activity and sleep in early-elementary-age latino children with obesity
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7916799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33670086
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports9020026
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