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The Role of Prescription Medications in the Association of Self-Reported Sleep Duration and Obesity in U.S. Adults, 2007–2012
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Sep 07 2016
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Source: Obesity (Silver Spring). 24(10):2210-2216
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Alternative Title:Obesity (Silver Spring)
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Description:Objective:
Previous research has not investigated the role of prescription medication in sleep-obesity associations despite the fact that 56% of U.S. adults take at least one prescription medication.
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Data from n = 16,622 adults in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2007–2012) were used to examine how the association between obesity and self-reported sleep duration varied by total number of prescription medications used in the past 30 days and by select classes of prescription medications including anxiolytics/sedatives/hypnotics, antidepressants, sleep aids, anticonvulsants, thyroid agents, and metabolic agents.
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Logistic regression analyses showed a significant inverse linear association of sleep duration and obesity, regardless of the total number of prescription medications individuals were taking. Each additional hour of sleep was associated with a 10% decrease in the odds of obesity. Results suggest that increased sleep duration is associated with lower odds of having obesity overall, even for long-duration sleepers (≥9 h), and this association does not differ for those taking antidepressants, thyroid agents, metabolic agents, and multiple prescription medications.
Conclusions:
The relationship between sleep duration and obesity was similar among all prescription medication users and nonusers. The potential for a nonlinear association between sleep duration and obesity may be important to examine in some specific prescription medication classes.
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Pubmed ID:27601085
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC6467537
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