Night eating syndrome: Implications for severe obesity

Nutrition and Diabetes

Volumn 2, Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages

  Cleator, J ^a   Abbott, J ^b   Judd, P ^b   Sutton, C ^b   Wilding, J P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Night eating; Obesity; Sleep

Indexed keywords

SERTRALINE; TOPIRAMATE;

ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY MASS; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIETARY INTAKE; GASTRIC BANDING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; OBESITY; PARASOMNIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEIGHT CONTROL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84880556888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20444052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nutd.2012.16     Document Type: Review

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