Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE

Amount

$132,374.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Epidemiologic data have shown associations between short sleep duration and elevated body mass index (BMI). So far, the major evidence in support of a causal mechanism comes from our laboratory studies of healthy young adults submitted to sleep restrictio