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Over the last decades, childhood obesity has been a crucial public health threat worldwide. In the meantime, insufficient sleep has become commonplace among children. A large body of research indicates that sleep duration is linked to children’s weight status. Thus, the aim of the present work was to review the current evidence regarding the potential underlying mechanisms (i.e. biological and behavioural)
involved in the association between sleep duration and childhood obesity.
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a chronic disease characterized by recurrent episodes of partial or complete collapse
of the upper airway during sleep, leading to pauses of breathing and arousals.
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Although cardiovascular disease mortality rates seem to decline, the increasing prevalence of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) over time along with the aging of the population, will pose serious public health concerns and large economic burden. In Greece, cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents the 50% of mortality and 30% of the patients are re-hospitalized within the first six months after the first cardiac event, according to WHO report.
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