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Eating times linked to sleep times, obesity

NEW ORLEANS — Eating later in the evening was tied to patients going to bed later and with having a greater BMI and fat mass, according to data presented at the Endocrine Society Annual Meeting.

Adnin Zaman, MD, a research fellow at the University of Colorado, Denver, and colleagues measured physical activity and sedentary time, sleep duration and eating during a 7-day study of 32 adults (mean age, 36.4 years; 90% women) with overweight and obesity (mean BMI, 33.4 kg/m²). The last food was consumed, on average, at 7:54 p.m.

Zaman and colleagues found the later the midpoint of a participant’s eating window during the day, the later the midpoint of sleep window tended to be (P < .0001) and that later eating midpoint was also correlated with a higher BMI (P = .005) and fat mass (P = .001).

More Healio coverage of Zaman’s findings can be found here. – by Janel Miller and Jill Rollet

Reference:

Zaman A, et al. SAT-096. Later timing of energy intake associates with higher fat mass in adults with overweight and obesity. Presented at: The Endocrine Society Annual Meeting; March 23-26, 2019; New Orleans.

Disclosures: Zaman reports she received research funding from the NIH.