In the current study of children with obesity we found that HRQOL was more strongly associated with the self-reported experience of sleep than the presence of OSA. Clinicians should consider assessing and optimizing sleep quality when evaluating sleep-disordered breathing in children with obesity. Longitudinal studies delineating the aspects of sleep quality that influence HRQOL and health outcomes in children may inform targeted management strategies for this population....

Overall, our findings suggest that eating frequency is increased in response to insufficient sleep, and the associations of eating patterns and their regularity with diet outcomes are modified by sleep duration, with adverse associations particularly under conditions of short sleep. These results may help to explain the shift toward obesogenic eating behaviors observed when sleep duration is curtailed.35,36 Replication of our findings from other clinical intervention studies, and with...

This study aimed to investigate the possible presence of phenotypes among children with OSA based on soft tissue facial features and craniofacial abnormalities indicating orthodontic treatment need. After performing 4 sequential cluster analyses, we found that soft tissue facial features and craniofacial abnormality variables may represent a reasonable option to distinguish independent subgroups. We identified 3 subgroups in the sample with similar sleep features but different age ranges,...