Associations between objectively measured nighttime sleep duration, sleep timing, and sleep quality and body composition in toddlers in the Guelph Family Health Study

The prevalence of child obesity is a worldwide public health concern. Good sleep quality is associated with reduced adiposity in older children and adults. More research is needed in younger children to help mitigate risk of obesity. In addition, we aimed to address limitations found in previous studies such as relying on subjective measures, or only including one parameter of sleep, using only one body composition parameter, and/or not …