Evidence review
Sleep and emotional eating: a review of associations
The Zeron-Rugerio review brings together studies of sleep and emotional eating and supports discussion of their association; the selected evidence does not establish that either causes the other.
- Evidence design
- Systematic review of observational and interventional studies
- Population
- Populations from studies on sleep, eating behavior and obesity; this does not represent a single clinical population.
Keep in view
- Association does not establish causal direction or an individual's response.
- No pooled magnitude, CI or effect-specific denominator was verified for this card.
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Review design and extraction scope
Systematic review of observational and interventional studies
Systematic review of cross-sectional, longitudinal and intervention studies; searches in Medline and Scopus, from January 2011 to December 2022.
Population
Populations from studies on sleep, eating behavior and obesity; this does not represent a single clinical population.
- Study design
- Systematic review of cross-sectional, longitudinal and intervention studies; searches in Medline and Scopus, from January 2011 to December 2022.
- Reported sample count
- Not reported or not verified
- Role of the reported sample count
- Review-wide total; not an outcome-specific denominator
- Included study count
- Not reported or not verified
- Role of the study count
- Review-wide total; not an outcome-specific denominator
- Research question
- Can emotional eating and disinhibition help explain the association between inadequate sleep and obesity?
- Qualified findings
- The review identifies associations of inadequate sleep with emotional eating and disinhibition, particularly among women. The authors propose these behaviors as possible links in the sleep–obesity relationship; the synthesis does not establish universal causal mediation or the efficacy of a specific intervention.
- Estimand and analysis rules
- Not reported or not verified
- Reason the formal estimand is unavailable
- A complete formal estimand was not extracted from the verified input.
How to read this review
Included studies may differ in population, design and outcomes. Review-wide counts describe coverage and cannot be used as the sample size of every estimate.
What the curated evidence supports
- The Zeron-Rugerio review brings together studies of sleep and emotional eating and supports discussion of their association; the selected evidence does not establish that either causes the other.
Limitations
- Association does not establish causal direction or an individual's response.
- No pooled magnitude, CI or effect-specific denominator was verified for this card.
Verification scope
Verified through 2026-11-04 within the consulted scope.
- Bibliographic metadata checked
- Yes
- Original article abstract consulted
- Yes
- Full-text consultation
- Not consulted
- full text verified fields
- Official trial registry consulted
- No
- Statistical analysis plan consulted
- No
- Verification boundary
- Verification is limited to the input's identified abstract/full-text fields. A trial identifier linked by an article does not imply a separate registry review.
Source record
Are Emotional Eating and Other Eating Behaviors the Missing Link in the Relationship between Inadequate Sleep and Obesity? A Systematic Review (2023)
Source identifiers
- PubMed record 37242168
- PubMed Central: PMC10223856
- Article DOI: 10.3390/nu15102286