Sleep habits and height at ages 5 to 11.

Sleep habits and height at ages 5 to 11.

Shorter durations of slow wave sleep and lower growth hormone responses have been reported in children with short stature caused by psychosocial deprivation. We investigated whether lower total sleep duration was associated with shorter stature in a sample of children taking part in the National Study of Health and Growth. Parental responses to a self administered questionnaire were used to est...

Height, Health, and Cognitive Function at Older Ages.

Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages By Anne Case and Christina Paxson Research across a number of disciplines has highlighted the role of early life health and circumstance in determining health and economic outcomes at older ages. Nutrition in utero and in infancy may set the stage for the chronic disease burden that an individual will face in middle age (David J. Barker, 1998;...

Normal Human Sleep at Different Ages: Infants to Adolescents

Health, Height, Height Shrinkage, and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China.

In this paper, we build on the literature that examines associations between height and health outcomes of the elderly. We investigate the associations of height shrinkage at older ages with socioeconomic status, finding that height shrinkage for both men and women is negatively associated with better schooling, current urban residence, and household per capita expenditures. We then investigate...

kids and teenager are sleepy at school because the electronic media they have in their bedrooms leads them to have delayed sleep phase disorder (dspd)

bserved by many teachers that most of the time, mumbling and searching for their intended words, students complain why they have forgotten the words they have learned in the previous semesters. they ask for some new ways that may help them to recall and apply the learned words more efficiently, since as they declare one of the most important skills in foreign language learning is having a g...