Authors: Chighaf Bakour Kathleen O’Rourke Skai Schwartz Wei Wang William Sappenfield Marisa Couluris
Publish Date: 2017/01/16
Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 1039-1045
Abstract
This crosssectional analysis included 16728 participants in the Florida Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2009–2013 Using logistic regression we examined the association between sleep duration and asthma and after controlling for potential confounders analyzed the interaction between sleep duration and BMISleeping for less than 7 h or more than 8 h on school night was associated with increased odds of current asthma Compared with 7–8 h of sleep per night sleeping for 7 h had an OR of 122 95 CI 107 140 while sleeping for ≥9 h had and OR of 131 106 163 When stratified by body mass index BMI these associations were significant only in overweight adolescents with those sleeping for 7 or ≥9 h having approximately twice the odds of having current asthma OR = 175 145 211 and OR = 200 132 302 respectively compared with normal weight adolescents who slept for 7–8 h per night
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