September 2008. Volume 4. Number 3

Short sleep duration in infancy and risk of childhood overweight

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Taveras EM, Rifas-Shiman SL, Oken E, Gunderson EP, Gillman MW. Short sleep duration in infancy and risk of childhood overweight. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162:305-11
Reviewers: Carreazo Pariasca NY1, Cuervo Valdés JJ2.
1Hospital de Emergencias Pediátricas. Lima. Perú.
2CS Ciudad Jardín. Badajoz. España.
Correspondence: Nilton Yhuri Carreazo Pariasca. Email: yhuroc@gmail.com
Reception date: /08/2008
Acceptance date: 10/08/2008
Publication date: 01/09/2008

Abstract

Authors’s conclusions: daily sleep duration of less than 12 hours in the first two years of life is associated with a higher degree of adiposity and overweight at the age of three.

Reviewer’s commentary: the findings described in the research provide a recommendation easy to implement and of low cost: infants must sleep more than 12 hours to diminish their probability of overweight at the age of 3. Though limitations to its extrapolation exist, related to the characteristics of the population included in the study; the results coincide with reviews conducted later and it is posible that they provide the same results if appliyng the same design of study in other population.

How to cite this article

Carreazo Pariasca NY, Cuervo Valdés JJ. La menor duración del sueño en lactantes aumenta la probabilidad de sobrepeso-obesidad a los tres años de de edad. Evid Pediatr. 2008;4:59.

AVC | Critically appraised articles

Taveras EM, Rifas-Shiman SL, Oken E, Gunderson EP, Gillman MW. Short sleep duration in infancy and risk of childhood overweight. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162:305-11
Reviewers: Carreazo Pariasca NY1, Cuervo Valdés JJ2.
1Hospital de Emergencias Pediátricas. Lima. Perú.
2CS Ciudad Jardín. Badajoz. España.
Correspondence: Nilton Yhuri Carreazo Pariasca. Email: yhuroc@gmail.com
Reception date: /08/2008
Acceptance date: 10/08/2008
Publication date: 01/09/2008

How to cite this article

Carreazo Pariasca NY, Cuervo Valdés JJ. La menor duración del sueño en lactantes aumenta la probabilidad de sobrepeso-obesidad a los tres años de de edad. Evid Pediatr. 2008;4:59.

References

  1. Gillman MW, Rich-Edwards JW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Lieberman ES et al. Maternal age and other predictors of newborn blood pressure. J Pediatr. 2004:144:240-5.
  2. Cappuccio FP, Taggart FM, Kandala NB, Currie A, Peile E, Stranges S et al. Meta-analysis of short sleep duration and obesity in children and adults. Sleep. 2008;31:619-26.
  3. Chen X, Beydoun MA, Wang Y. Is sleep duration associated with childhood obesity? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity. 2008;16:265-74.
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