Open AccessThe Association Between Sleep Disordered Breathing, Academic Grades, and Cognitive and Behavioral Functioning Among Overweight Subjects During Middle to Late Childhood
Author(s) -
Dean W. Beebe,
M. Douglas Ris,
Megan Kramer,
Elizabeth E. Long,
Raouf Amin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.1093/sleep/33.11.1447
Subject(s) - polysomnography , overweight , psychology , neuropsychology , cognition , socioeconomic status , clinical psychology , obstructive sleep apnea , cognitive skill , developmental psychology , medicine , body mass index , psychiatry , apnea , population , anesthesia , environmental health , pathology
(1) to determine the associations of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) with behavioral functioning, cognitive test scores, and school grades during middle- to late-childhood, an under-researched developmental period in the SDB literature, and (2) to clarify whether associations between SDB and school grades are mediated by deficits in cognitive or behavioral functioning.
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