Suboptimal sleep quality and quantity are associated with higher body mass index and more difficulty losing weight. In this podcast, JAMA Insights author Atul Malhotra, MD, from the University of California, San Diego, discusses evidence regarding sleep and obesity with JAMA Deputy Editor Mary McDermott, MD.<br><br>Related Content:<br>Sleep Health and Obesity

The Sleep-Weight Connection

JAMA Clinical Reviews

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I am your host, Dr. Mary McDermott, Deputy Editor of JAMA, and I'm here today with Dr. Atul Malhotra, who is Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Medicine, Research Chief for Pulmonary and Critical Care, Sleep Medicine and Physiology at UC San Diego, and the Peter Farrell Tenured Professor of Respiratory Medicine at UC San Diego. Welcome, Atul. Thank you for having me, Mary.

Can you start us off by discussing what is the association of sleep and obesity? Yeah, thank you for the question. It turns out that sleep is a vital part of human health, perhaps not surprisingly, but the data are becoming more and more compelling that inadequate sleep has health consequences. Your mother was right. So we think of three pillars of health being diet, exercise, and sleep, with the dogma being if you ignore one, the other two will suffer.

So they're pretty good data that people who are habitually sleep-deprived will gain more weight over time than those who sleep adequately. So we had a paper about 20 years ago now from the Nurses' Health Study looking at inadequate sleepers, those sleeping five or six hours per night, gained more weight over time than those sleeping...

The Sleep-Weight Connection

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The Sleep-Weight Connection

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.