Sleep duration in elderly obese patients correlated negatively with intake fatty

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2012-08-07

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Santana, Aline Alves
Pimentel, Gustavo Duarte [UNESP]
Romualdo, Monica
Oyama, Lila Missae
Thomatieli Santos, Ronaldo Vagner
Pinho, Ricardo Aurino
de Souza, Claudio Teodoro
Rodrigues, Bruno
Caperuto, Erico Chagas
Lira, Fabio Santos

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Biomed Central Ltd.

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Study objectives: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between sleep duration and dietary habits in elderly obese patients treated at an institute of cardiology.Methods: The fifty-eight volunteers were elderly patients with obesity (classified as obese according to BMI) of both genders, between 60 and 80 years of age. All participants were subjected to assessments of food intake, anthropometry, level of physical activity, and duration of sleep.Results: The men had significantly greater weight, height, and waist circumference than women. Sleep durations were correlated with dietary nutrient compositions only in men. We found a negative association between short sleep and protein intake (r = -0.43; p = 0.02), short sleep and monounsaturated fatty acids intake (r = -0.40; p = 0.03), and short sleep and cholesterol dietary intake (r = -0.50; p = 0.01).Conclusions: We conclude that mainly in men, volunteers that had short sleep duration showed a preference for high energy-density as fatty food, at least in part, may explain the relationship between short sleep duration and the development of metabolic abnormalities.

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Obesity, Sleep, Food intake, Elderly

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Lipids In Health and Disease. London: Biomed Central Ltd., v. 11, p. 6, 2012.