Maternal sleep duration and neonate birth weight: A population-based cohort study

Objective: To investigate the association between maternal sleep duration (an important health indicator) and neonate birth weight. Methods: The study included 2536 mother-neonate pairs of a Spanish birth cohort (2004-2006, INMA project). The exposures were questionnaire-based measures of sleep dura...

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Autores: Marinelli, Marcella, Carsin, Anne-Elie, Turner, Michelle C., Fernández-Somoano, Ana, Rodríguez Dehli, Cristina, Basterrechea, Mikel, Santa Marina, Loreto, Iñiguez, Carmen, Lopez-Espinosa, Maria-José, Sunyer Deu, Jordi, Júlvez Calvo, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/58094
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.13685
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Birth outcomes
Birth weight
Maternal health
Population-based birth cohort
Sleep duration
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Sumario:Objective: To investigate the association between maternal sleep duration (an important health indicator) and neonate birth weight. Methods: The study included 2536 mother-neonate pairs of a Spanish birth cohort (2004-2006, INMA project). The exposures were questionnaire-based measures of sleep duration before and during pregnancy. The primary outcome was neonate birth weight score (g) standardized to 40 weeks of gestation. Results: In women sleeping for <7 h/day before pregnancy, each additional hour of sleep increased birth weight score by 44.7 g (P = 0.049) in the minimally adjusted model, although findings were not statistically significant after considering other potential confounders (P > 0.05). However, increasing sleep duration for the group of mothers who slept for more than 9 h/day decreased birth weight score by 39.2 g per additional hour (P = 0.001). Findings were similar after adjusting for several sociodemographic confounders and maternal depression-anxiety clinical history as an intermediate factor. Similar but attenuated associations were observed with sleep duration in the second trimester of pregnancy. Conclusion: The relationship between maternal sleep duration before and during pregnancy and neonate birth weight is an inverse U-shaped curve. Excessive sleep duration may adversely affect neonate health through its impact on birth weight.