Parallel Assessment Challenges in Nutritional and Sleep Epidemiology.

Parallel Assessment Challenges in Nutritional and Sleep Epidemiology. Am J Epidemiol. 2020 Oct 22;: Authors: Dunietz GL, Jansen EC, Hershner SD, O'Brien LM, Peterson KE, Baylin A Abstract Sleep has been consistently linked to health outcomes in clinical studies, but only in recent years has sleep become a focus in epidemiologic studies and public health. In particular, the sizable prevalence of insufficient sleep in the population warrants well-designed epidemiologic studies to examine its impact on public health. As a developing field, sleep epidemiology encounters methodological challenges similar to those faced by nutritional epidemiology research. In this article, we describe a few central challenges related to assessment of sleep duration in population-based studies in comparison to measurement challenges in nutritional epidemiology. In addition, we highlight three strategies applied in nutritional epidemiology to address measurement challenges and suggest ways these strategies may be implemented in large-scale sleep investigations. PMID: 33089309 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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