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- Title
Sleep duration and activity levels in Estonian and Swedish children and adolescents.
- Authors
Ortega, Francisco; Ruiz, Jonatan; Labayen, Idoia; Kwak, Lydia; Harro, Jaanus; Oja, Leila; Veidebaum, Toomas; Sjöström, Michael; Ortega, Francisco B; Ruiz, Jonatan R; Sjöström, Michael
- Abstract
We aimed to examine the associations of sleep duration with time spent on sedentary, moderate and vigorous activities in children and adolescents. The sample consisted of 2,241 (53.5% girls) Estonian and Swedish children (9-10 years) and adolescents (15-16 years), from the European Youth Heart Study, in 1998-1999. Sleep duration was calculated by the difference between self-reported bedtime and time for getting up on a normal weekday. Sedentary time/physical activity was measured by accelerometry (valid data on 1,462 participants). Adolescents had lower odds than children, and Swedish higher odds than Estonian, of meeting the sleep recommendations (>9 h) (OR = 0.22, 95% CI 0.17-0.27; and 1.32, 1.07-1.61, respectively). Participants sleeping longer than 10 h spent more time on physical activities (all intensities) and less time on sedentary activities than those sleeping shorter durations (all P < 0.001). The associations with physical activity became non-significant after additional adjustment for age or sexual maturation (Tanner stages), whereas the associations with sedentary time became borderline significant (P = 0.09/0.03, for age and Tanner, respectively). In conclusion, these results do not suggest a link between sleep durations and activity in a relatively large sample of children and adolescents from two European countries. Consequently, the common assumption that physical activity is a mediator in the relationship between short sleep durations and obesity is not supported by our findings.
- Subjects
ESTONIA; SWEDEN; CHILDREN &; sleep; SEDENTARY lifestyles; SEDENTARY behavior in children; TEENAGERS &; sleep; ESTONIANS; PHYSICALLY active people; PHYSIOLOGY; HEALTH; COMPARATIVE studies; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; MOTOR ability; RESEARCH; SLEEP; TIME; EVALUATION research
- Publication
European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2011, Vol 111, Issue 10, p2615
- ISSN
1439-6319
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00421-011-1883-6