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Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4053.1510019
Sleep Disturbance as a Contributor to Pediatric Obesity: Implications and Screening
Gitanjali Srivastava, Valerie O'Hara and Nancy Browne
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: July 16, 2018
Obesity causes more than 200 medical disorders including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea. In particular, the prevalence and rate of obesity in children and adolescents have increased with over 1/3 of the US pediatric population afflicted with overweight and obesity. Though there is a multifactorial etiology including complex biological and physiological mechanisms involved in energy regulation that may predispose toward an obesity phenotype, we highlight an often miss...
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