Researchers from the United States have shown that longer sleep and fewer wakes in newborns are associated with a smaller risk of overweight in infancy. The article of scientists is published in the Sleep.
“While the association between insufficient sleep and the weight kit is well installed for adults and children of older ages, for infants this connection was not detected,” said one of the researchers, doctor of the hospital Brigham and Wimenas Susan Redline. Together with colleagues, she traded the health of 298 babies born from 2016 to 2018.
With the help of the Aktigraphs, the researchers trained the phases of children’s sleep for three nights on the first and sixth month of life. At the same time, parents asked to keep babies sleep diaries. The researchers also measured the weight and growth of children on the basis of which for each calculated the body mass index. Scientists have found that each additional hour sleep correlated with increasing risk of overweight by 26 percent. In addition, below was the risk of gaining overweight from those babies that were less common at night.
According to researchers, a large sleep duration leads to the establishment of breastfeeding routine – which reduces overeating among babies.