Meta-analysis of short sleep duration and obesity in children and adults.

By F. Cappuccio, F. Taggart, N. Kandala, A. Currie, E. Peile, S. Stranges, Michelle A. Miller. Sleep, 2008

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Development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures for sleep disturbance and sleep-related impairments. (2010, methodology): “ties of individual items using IRT models, and (4) to examine”
Metabolic consequences of sleep and sleep loss (2008, background): “A recent meta-analysis of 30 crosssectional studies investigated the relationship between sleep duration and obesity or BMI in adults and children (12 studies in children [n = 30,002] and 18 studies in adults [n = 604,509]) from around the world [49].”
Social jetlag and obesity. (2012, positive): “The BMI distribution of the database population concurred with previous reports (inset in Figure S2 and [23, 24]); it increases with age [univariate ANOVA, F(1, 64,107) = 5,965.”
Sleep curtailment is accompanied by increased intake of calories from snacks (2008, background): “The potential importance of this trend for public health is highlighted by epidemiologic data, which indicate that self-reported sleep of ,6 h per night is associated with increased adiposity (5, 6).”
Sleep: a health imperative. (2012, neutral): “71 Longitudinal studies of sleep and weight gain have also report-ed that short sleep duration may increase the risk of becoming obese.”