A preliminary study presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions on Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyles, and Cardiometabolic Health 2023 found that people who reported getting regular, uninterrupted sleep were less likely to exercise or exercise while trying to lose weight. Suggested success in adhering to the meal plan.
- Based on regularity, satisfaction, alertness, timing, efficiency, and duration, those who scored higher on sleep health during a 12-month weight loss program were more likely than others to increase their calorie intake and More likely to follow the movement element. People with low sleep health scores.
- People with better sleep health participated more in the program’s group sessions.
A preliminary study presented at the American Heart Association’s Science Session on Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle, and Cardiometabolic Health 2023 found that people who reported getting regular, uninterrupted sleep were more likely to exercise while trying to lose weight. I’ve had better results by sticking to my diet and meal plan. Held in Boston, it provided the latest science in population-based health and wellness and the impact of lifestyle and cardiometabolic health.
Christopher said, “The focus on getting a good night’s sleep (7 to 9 hours at night, regular wake-up times and waking up alert throughout the day with a refreshed wake-up) helps people to reduce physical activity and diet. It may be a critical behavior that helps you maintain change goals,” said Dr. E. Klein, associate professor in the Department of Health and Human Development at the University of Pittsburgh. “Our previous study reported that better sleep health was associated with greater weight and fat loss in participants in a one-year behavioral weight loss program.”
Researchers investigated whether good sleep health was related to adherence to various lifestyle changes prescribed in a 12-month weight loss program. The weight loss program included 125 adults (mean age 50 years, 91% female, 81% Caucasian) who met overweight or obese criteria (BMI 27-44) and underwent medical supervision of diet and diet. There are no medical conditions that require physical activity.
Sleep habits were assessed at the start of the program, and at 6 and 12 months through patient questionnaires, sleep diaries, and 7-day readings from a wrist-worn device recording sleep, wakeful activity, and rest. Measured. Using these measures, each participant was scored as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ on her six sleep measures. satisfaction; arousal; timing; efficiency (percentage of time spent in bed when actually asleep); and duration. A composite sleep health score ranging from 0 to 6 was calculated for each participant, with 1 point given for each “good” measure of sleep health, with higher scores indicating a higher level of sleep health.
Adherence to the weight loss program was measured by the percentage of group intervention sessions attended. Percentage of days each participant ate her 85–115% of her recommended daily calories. Changes in her daily duration of moderate or vigorous physical activity. The participant had an average sleep health score of 4.5 out of 6 for her at the beginning of the study, 6 months, and 12 months. Participants self-reported their daily calorie intake using a phone app, and researchers wore accelerometers on his hips for one week at a time at study initiation, six months, and 12 months. Participants’ physical activity was measured.
After adjusting sleep health scores for age, gender, race, and whether or not they had a bed-sharing partner, the researchers found that better sleep health was associated with higher participation in group interval sessions, higher calorie intake goals, and higher levels of participation in group interval sessions. found to be associated with adherence to, and improvement in, time spent performing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. they found:
- Participants participated in 79% of group sessions in the first 6 months and 62% of group sessions in the next 6 months.
- Participants met their daily caloric intake goal of 36% in the first 6 months and 21% in the second 6 months.
- Participants increased the total time spent in moderate-to-vigorous activity per day by 8.7 minutes in the first 6 months, but decreased it by a total of 3.7 minutes in the next 6 months.
Decreases in group session participation, caloric intake, and time spent in moderate-to-vigorous activity were expected in the latter six months, Klein said. Declining adherence to weight loss behavior is normal,” he said.
Additionally, there was an association between improved sleep health scores and increased physical activity, but it was not strong enough to be statistically significant. Researchers cannot rule out that the results are due to chance.
“We hypothesized that sleep was related to lifestyle changes. all three About our measures regarding lifestyle changes,” he said. “Although sleep health was not intervened in this study, these results suggest that optimizing sleep may improve adherence to lifestyle changes.”
Limitations of this study include that it did not incorporate interventions to improve participants’ sleep, that the study sample was not recruited based on participants’ sleep health characteristics, and that the entire sample population was not based on The sample was also predominantly Caucasian and female, so it is unclear whether these results can be generalized to more diverse populations.
“One question of interest for future research is whether improving a person’s sleep health can enhance adherence to lifestyle changes and ultimately promote weight loss.” said Kline.
A second question for researchers is how to time such interventions to improve sleep.
“It remains unclear whether it is best to optimize sleep before, rather than during, weight loss attempts. Should we tell patients to focus on good sleep, or should we try to improve their sleep by modifying their diet and activity level?” said Klein.
Improving sleep health is something everyone can do to improve cardiovascular health and is a key component of the American Heart Association Life Essentials 8. Sleep was added in 2022 as his eighth component of optimal cardiovascular health. Stay active, quit smoking, get enough sleep, maintain a healthy weight, and control your cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure levels. Cardiovascular disease claims more lives in the United States each year than all forms of cancer and chronic lower respiratory tract disease combinedaccording to the 2023 statistical update from the American Heart Association.
“With over 100 studies linking sleep to weight gain and obesity, this is a great example of how sleep is linked not only to your weight, but to what you do to manage your weight. This may be because sleep affects hunger and cravings, your metabolism, your ability to regulate your metabolism, and your ability to make healthier choices in general. He was director of the research program, director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at Banner University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, and co-author of the association’s Life’s Essential 8 Cardiovascular Health Score. It really shows that all of this is related, sleep is something we can control, and it may help pave the way for other health.”
Co-authored by Christopher C. Imes, Ph.D., RN. Dr. Susan M. Seleika. Daniel J. Buysse, MD. Dr. Bonny Rockette-Wagner. Zhadyra Bizhanova, Ph.D.; and Lora E. Burke, Ph.D., MPH Author disclosures are provided in the abstract.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health, funded the study.
