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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2012 Jan 26;20(6):1279–1287. doi: 10.1038/oby.2011.381

Table 4.

Gender-specific multivariable-adjusteda prevalence(95% CI)estimates for overweight and obesity according to categories of sleep duration

Overweight Obesity
< 7 hr/d 7–9 hr/d >9 hr/d p-value, interaction <7 hr/d 7–9 hr/d >9 hr/d p-value, interaction
Overweight
Total sample, n 151 692 196 75 270 100
Prevalence (95% CI) 0.55 (0.47, 0.62) 0.52 (0.49, 0.55) 0.43 (0.37, 0.48) 0.26 (0.20, 0.33) 0.17 (0.15, 0.20) 0.18 (0.14, 0.23)
 p-value b 0.53 ref 0.006 0.004 ref 0.63
Gender 0.30 0.047
Men, n 97 371 77 51 108 38
Prevalence (95% CI) 0.69 (0.59, 0.76) 0.59 (0.54, 0.63) 0.43 (0.34, 0.52) 0.35 (0.26, 0.45) 0.14 (0.11, 0.17) 0.19 (0.13, 0.27)
 p-value 0.062 ref 0.0033 <0.001 ref 0.17
Women, n 52 321 119 23 162 62
Prevalence (95% CI) 0.39 (0.28, 0.51) 0.46 (0.42, 0.51) 0.41 (0.34, 0.48) 0.15 (0.09, 0.25) 0.19 (0.16, 0.23) 0.17 (0.12, 0.23)
 p-value 0.27 ref 0.21 0.41 ref 0.52
a

Adjusted for age and race, and gender in the total sample analysis, student status, college graduate, parental status, ability to live on income, depressive symptoms, depression diagnosis (ever), breakfastconsumption, fast foodconsumption, total energyintake, consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, MVPA, screen time.

b

P-values correspond toseparate pair-wise comparisons of <7 hours/day to 7–9 hours/day and of >9 hours/day to 7–9 hours/day.