Longitudinal associations between endogenous melatonin production and reported sleep duration from childhood to early adulthood

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 390-398

  Diethelm, Katharina ^a   Libuda, Lars ^a   Bolzenius, Katja ^a   Griefahn, Barbara ^b   Buyken, Anette E ^a   Remer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

6 Hydroxymelatonin sulfate; Healthy children and adolescents; Melatonin; Pineal gland; Sleep duration

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROXYMELATONIN SULFATE; MELATONIN; MELATONIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SLEEP; SLEEP DURATION; SMOKING; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MELATONIN; PINEAL GLAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650441202     PISSN: 16632818     EISSN: 16632826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000303134     Document Type: Article

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