Example sentences for: mignot

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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].

  • 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.

  • Mignot and colleagues plan to test this in intervention studies where they make people sleep more and measure the effects on body mass.

  • Intrigued by the connection between sleep and BMI, and by recent studies showing that sleep deprivation in laboratory settings can cause a decrease in serum levels of leptin, a hormone known to control appetite, Emmanuel Mignot and colleagues set out to study the levels of various hormones known to regulate appetite and energy expenditure under “real life” conditions.

  • Mignot and colleagues' data are in accord with human and animal studies that show that experimental curtailment of sleep leads to lower levels of leptin [8,9,10,11] and increased ghrelin [12].


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