Thanks for a great piece on sleep and obesity catherine conlon. I get the compelling observational associations between poor sleep and weight gain. Do you know have any studies shown that improving sleep leads to significant weight loss in people with obesity and sleep disorders?

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Francis Finucane catherine conlon Current state-of-the-art for CBT-insomnia intervention for cardiometabolic health (not specifically in obesity): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thanks catherine conlon much appreciated!

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Francis Finucane catherine conlon Very interesting article catherine conlon - Francis Finucane Cherie Galletly’s group has done some work including weight outcomes post CPAP in people living with schizophrenia and obstructive sleep apnoea pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30450286/

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catherine conlon Current Biology HSE Health & Wellbeing RCSI School of Population Health UCC School of Public Health Institute of Public Health Irish College of GPs Irish Heart Foundation Francis Finucane I definitely agree that sleep is very important in this context. I’m just not sure the scientific evidence is entirely there that telling/helping people to target sleep will actually produce significant and long-term weight-related health benefits in obesity. (1/2)

catherine conlon Current Biology HSE Health & Wellbeing RCSI School of Population Health UCC School of Public Health Institute of Public Health Irish College of GPs Irish Heart Foundation Francis Finucane I do think it’s important to target this intervention as part of an MDT approach (low risk, possible benefit) but would suggest that be presented as complementary with agents like the drugs, not a proven or superior alternative. Still very much appreciate the article. (2/2)

catherine conlon Current Biology HSE Health & Wellbeing RCSI School of Population Health UCC School of Public Health Institute of Public Health Irish College of GPs Irish Heart Foundation Francis Finucane Framing better sleep as an alternative to obesity medicine (not "weight loss drugs") is really unhelpful. Nobody is just casually "reaching for weight loss drugs" because they can't be arsed going to bed a bit earlier. People take these meds because behaviour change didn't work.

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