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Natasha T. Giddens, M.D., from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues compared total sleep time using a week of actigraphy data among 4,207 American children aged 9 to 13 years of different racial/ethnic and income groups. The effects of neighborhood deprivation, experience of discrimination, parents’ age at child’s birth, body mass index (BMI), and time the child fell asleep on sleep times were examined.
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