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Patients with SDB (a pathology associated with increased BMI) may spend a longer time in bed to compensate for fragmented sleep; however, controlling for AHI did not change the curvilinear BMI–sleep association.
A U-shaped curvilinear relationship between sleep duration and BMI was observed for women, but for men, there was a monotonic trend towards higher BMI with shorter sleep duration.
We found a significant U-shaped curvilinear relationship between average nightly sleep and BMI after adjustment for age and sex (average nightly sleep coefficient = −2.