Assessment of body mass index and the association with quality of sleep in young adults

: The link between sleep and maintaining health and wellbeing is increasingly relevant for adolescents and adults. The adverse consequences of insufficient sleep on health have been related to obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and even incident pneumonia. Methods: A total of eighty young adults (female: 29 and male: 51) aged eighteen to twenty-five years were assessed. Anthropometric measurements including age, height, weight and indices like height for age, weight for age, and BMI for age were calculated. The sleep quality was assessed through Pittsburgh sleep quality index questionnaire. The Pearson correlation was carried out to find the relation between BMI and sleep quality

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