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In this study of 1,024 participants in the population-based Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study [7], Mignot and colleagues found that in persons sleeping less than 8 hours, increased BMI was proportional to decreased sleep [3].
“Good sleep, healthy eating habits, and regular exercise each may have important roles in fighting obesity in modern society,” suggests Mignot.
Mignot and colleagues plan to test this in intervention studies where they make people sleep more and measure the effects on body mass.
Mignot and colleagues' study is congruent with the idea that inadequate sleep enhances ghrelin secretion, which in turn acts as an endogenous sleep factor in humans.
The mechanism linking short sleep with weight gain is unknown, but Mignot and colleagues' study in this month's PLoS Medicine [3] adds to the growing evidence implicating leptin and ghrelin, the two key opposing hormones involved in appetite regulation.