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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 Oct 14;19(2):324–331. doi: 10.1038/oby.2010.242

Table 3.

Relationship between sleep and body fat percentage, BMI z-score, and being overweight

Malesa
Femalesa
Grade level
Grade level
5th to 8th (n = 173)
9th to 12th (n = 180)
5th to 8th (n = 163)
9th to 12th (n = 207)
Coef s.e. P Coef s.e. P Coef s.e. P Coef s.e. P
Percent body fat
 Average daily sleep −1.91 0.68 0.005 −0.67 0.76 0.38 −0.44 0.71 0.54 0.21 0.68 0.75
 Weekday sleep duration −2.97 0.81 <0.001 −0.83 0.51 0.10 −0.25 0.63 0.70 0.92 0.55 0.09
 Weekend sleep duration −1.22 0.47 0.01 −0.08 0.52 0.88 −0.36 0.50 0.48 −0.63 0.43 0.14
 Sleep problems/night eating −0.05 1.07 0.96 −0.77 0.72 0.29 1.03 0.74 0.17 1.05 0.66 0.11
 Bedtime difference 0.45 0.75 0.55 0.40 0.65 0.54 0.03 0.55 0.95 0.56 0.59 0.34
 Wake-time difference 0.25 0.56 0.65 0.32 0.47 0.50 −0.19 0.37 0.61 −0.80 0.40 0.05
 Total sleep difference −0.00 0.38 0.99 −0.17 0.40 0.67 0.22 0.47 0.64 0.90 0.38 0.02
BMI z-score
 Average daily sleep −0.32 0.06 <0.001 −0.09 0.09 0.27 −0.18 0.08 0.02 −0.03 0.07 0.49
 Weekday sleep duration −0.29 0.08 <0.001 −0.09 0.06 0.14 −0.13 0.07 0.05 0.03 0.06 0.59
 Weekend sleep duration −0.13 0.05 0.01 0.00 0.06 0.95 −0.11 0.05 0.02 −0.07 0.05 0.16
 Sleep problems/night eating 0.05 0.14 0.74 −0.06 0.08 0.47 0.10 0.10 0.32 −0.03 0.08 0.74
 Bedtime difference 0.14 0.08 0.08 0.04 0.08 0.59 0.06 0.07 0.34 0.04 0.06 0.54
 Wake-time difference 0.08 0.06 0.17 0.06 0.05 0.21 −0.01 0.04 0.83 −0.07 0.05 0.16
 Total sleep difference −0.00 0.05 0.95 −0.04 0.05 0.42 0.04 0.05 0.31 0.07 0.04 0.11
Weight status (overweight)
 Average daily sleep −0.52 0.20 0.01 −0.15 0.20 0.47 −0.29 0.28 0.30 0.18 0.24 0.44
 Weekday sleep duration −0.58 0.20 <0.01 −0.19 0.21 0.36 −0.28 0.27 0.30 0.45 0.22 0.04
 Weekend sleep duration −0.10 0.11 0.36 0.14 0.15 0.38 −0.08 0.17 0.63 −0.15 0.12 0.21
 Sleep problems/night eating −0.04 0.29 0.89 −0.54 0.31 0.08 0.11 0.33 0.73 0.12 0.24 0.61
 Bedtime difference 0.21 0.14 0.14 −0.16 0.22 0.46 −0.05 0.23 0.83 0.11 0.20 0.59
 Wake-time difference 0.27 0.12 0.03 0.14 0.13 0.26 0.02 0.14 0.89 −0.28 0.14 0.05
 Total sleep difference −0.14 0.11 0.19 −0.24 0.17 0.16 −0.05 0.16 0.77 0.26 0.12 0.03

P < 0.05 is highlighted in boldface.

Coef, coefficient.

a

Adjusted for demographic variables and depression, energy intake (average daily calories), and energy expenditure (average counts per min).