Cognitive executive functions and sleep-wake cycle (swc) patterns in sample of chilean adolescents

Abstract

In Chile, obesity has quadrupled their prevalence in childhood and adolescence, becoming the most relevant nutritional disease for this age-range (64,5% of the population) in the last 20 years). Some studies have shown an association between poor cognitive performance-in particular executive functions (EF)- and the risk of being overweight. On the other hand, the relationship between sleep-wake cycle (SWC) patterns and weight gain is well established. However, most studies are not based on objective. The porpose of the study is to assess EF performance and SWC patterns in OW adolescents.