ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 6 (UPI) -- Low levels of sleep -- fewer than 8 1/2 hours -- is a significant predictor of cardiometabolic risk in obese teens, U.S. researchers say.
Lead author Heidi IglayReger, supervisor of the Physical Activity Laboratory at the Michigan Metabolomics and Obesity Center, part of the University of Michigan Health System, and colleagues at Baylor University studied 37 obese adolescents, ages 11 to 17.