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Research question
Is sleep deprivation associated with obesity risk?
Short answer
The returned literature should be checked for population, sleep measurement method, obesity outcome, and whether the evidence is observational or interventional.
Search conditions and results
- Claim searched: Sleep deprivation is associated with increased obesity risk.
- Search intent: Find source-linked biomedical papers about sleep deprivation and obesity risk.
- Result set: Top source-linked biomedical papers returned by LitSource for this claim.
- Last refreshed: 2026-05-04
Top papers found
| Paper | Year | Journal | Source | Evidence snippet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is Increased Sleep Responsible for Reductions in Myocardial Infarction During the COVID-19 Pandemic? | 2020 | The American journal of cardiology | PMID 32703526 | Sleep deprivation is also an epidemic and has been associated with incident MI, impaired glucose tolerance, increased obesity risk and pneumonia. |
| Obesity, diabetes, and exercise associated with sleep-related complaints in the American population. | 2011 | Zeitschrift fur Gesundheitswissenschaften = Journal of public health | PMID 22791935 | Subjective habitual short sleep is associated with increased body mass index (BMI), less habitual sleep is associated with a higher-fat diet, and experimental sleep deprivation is associated with physiological disruptio… |
| Early Postpartum Weight Retention in Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in China: Current Status and Influencing Factors. | 2026 | International journal of women's health | PMID 41788792 | Similarly, although sleep deprivation and poor sleep quality have been linked to insulin resistance and obesity risk, our study did not identify a significant association between sleep quality and PPWR. |
| Sleep duration and fragmentation in relation to leukocyte DNA methylation in adolescents. | 2019 | Sleep | PMID 31181146 | STUDY OBJECTIVES: Sleep deprivation and low sleep quality are widespread among adolescents, and associate with obesity risk. |
| Effectiveness of a new approach for exclusive breastfeeding counselling on breastfeeding prevalence, infant growth velocity and postpartum weight loss in overweight or obese women: protocol for a randomized controlled trial. | 2020 | International breastfeeding journal | PMID 31921328 | Several modifiable factors during the first thousand days (from conception to two years of age) are associated with obesity risk later in life including excess pre-pregnancy weight, excessive weight gain during pregnanc… |
| Assessment of sleep and obesity in adults and children: Observational study. | 2019 | Medicine | PMID 31725607 | Biological and behavioral mechanisms have been proposed to explain the association between obesity risk and sleep deprivation. |
| Obesity and injury-related absenteeism in a population-based firefighter cohort. | 2011 | Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) | PMID 21633400 | Shift work has been associated with weight gain and obesity risk in a number of studies and it has been suggested that eating patterns may be negatively impacted by chronic sleep deprivation and irregular meal times. |
| Self-regulation and behavioral risk factors for obesity in youth facing multiple adversities. | 2025 | SSM - population health | PMID 40677906 | Navigating daily life today in these environments requires increasingly higher levels of self-regulation to compensate for the powerful ways in which they promote and incentivize health behaviors associated with obesity… |
What the evidence appears to support
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What remains uncertain
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