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AoU Research Priorities Use Cases
How are sleep characteristics associated with pediatric developmental conditions, disorders or chronic disease?
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Understand the inter-relationships among sleep, diet, physical activity and stress on one another and health outcomes.
There is a need to understand the inter-relationships among sleep, diet, physical activity and stress on one another and health outcomes.
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What treatments are effective in reducing anxiety and increasing stress tolerance in high-functioning, children with autism
A cohort study of pre-teens with high functioning autism, formerly Aspergers, would collect data about pharmacological and behavioral therapies tried and obtain dose and duration of treatments. Survey data from parents would measure functioning and stress tolerance at age 10, 13 and 18.
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Wearables for capturing sleep and circadian information across day/night and long-term.
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Associations between genetics, environment, household, parenting time, and nutrition on early child development (ages 0-6)
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What is the overall role of sports, which promote physical activity but can also contribute to injuries, in America’s health?
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Does insufficient, disordered, or mistimed sleep cause physical/mental illness?
When you ask subjects about lifestyle, don't stop @ diet/exercise. Ask about sleep. When you ask about sleep, don't stop @ length/quality. Ask about circadian timing: when ppl sleep. Is timing dictated by their body clock *or* work/family demands?
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What are the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) over the lifespan?
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Characterize the bases for the circadian timing, duration and and quality of sleep and vulnerability to develop sleep disorders
Study would seek to characterize the etiological bases, including genetic, socio-cultural and environmental, for the circadian timing, duration and quality of sleep and vulnerability to develop sleep disorders.
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What social determinants & health/functional factors increase the risk of malnutrition for older adults living in the community?
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What factors predict successful long-term weight loss maintenance?
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Is gait speed associated with health outcomes in a large, generalizable data set?
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Inclusion of survey questions sensitive to sleep and circadian phenotypes, which may be easily administered via smart phone apps
There is a need to include survey questions sensitive to sleep and circadian phenotypes, which may be easily administered via smart phone applications.
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Development of biomarkers of sleep sufficiency for use in safety for duty assessment and longer term health indices.
Biomarkers of sleep sufficiency need to be developed for use in safety for duty and also for use as longer term health indices.