Publications by authors named "Mia Q Zhu"
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- - The study aimed to explore how a mother's early pregnancy body mass index (BMI) affects the likelihood of her child developing insomnia later in life, using data from over 3 million live births in Sweden from 1983 to 2015.
- - Results showed that children of mothers with higher BMI categories during early pregnancy (overweight and various obesity classes) had increased insomnia risk, with hazard ratios indicating a clear dose-response relationship.
- - The findings suggest that while familial factors may play a role, they do not fully account for the connection between maternal obesity and child insomnia, pointing to other influencing factors during pregnancy and child development.
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- The study explored the link between a mother's early pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and the likelihood of their child being diagnosed with sleep apnea.
- Researchers analyzed data from over 3 million births in Sweden between 1983 and 2015, tracking participants for sleep apnea diagnoses from ages 2 to 35.
- Results showed a positive relationship where higher maternal BMI categories correlated with increased offspring sleep apnea risk, indicating that maternal overweight and obesity significantly impact this risk.
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- - The study involved 957 Colombian adolescents, assessing the link between their chronotype (sleep patterns) and behavior problems, using questionnaires like the Youth Self-Report (YSR) and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL).
- - Findings showed that a later chronotype (preferring to stay up late) was linked to increased behavior problems, including both internalizing (e.g., anxiety) and externalizing (e.g., aggression) issues.
- - While social jetlag (discrepancy between biological and social clocks) was related to some behavior problems, it only partially mediated the relationship between chronotype and issues like somatic complaints and attention problems.
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- The study explores how sleep duration in middle childhood affects the age at which girls experience menarche (the first menstrual period).
- Researchers followed 819 Colombian premenarcheal girls to measure the correlation between their sleep habits and the timing of menarche, using adjusted hazard ratios to analyze the results.
- Findings indicate that girls aged 9 to 11 who sleep longer than recommended are more likely to start menstruating earlier, while those aged 11 and older who sleep less than recommended also tend to have earlier menarche.
We examined the associations of middle childhood and adolescence nighttime sleep duration with adolescence internalizing and externalizing behavior problems per the Youth Self-Report (YSR) and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) questionnaires, in a cohort of 889 Colombian schoolchildren. We estimated adjusted differences with 95% confidence intervals (CI) in mean behavior problem -scores in standardized units between recommended sleep duration categories and as a continuous exposure using multiple linear regression and restricted cubic spline models, respectively. Compared with sleep duration within recommendations, middle childhood sleep above recommendations was related to 4.
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