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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Obesity Volume 2012, Article ID 476914, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/476914 Research Article Association of Sleep Duration with Obesity among US High School Students Richard Lowry,1 Danice K. Eaton,1 Kathryn Foti,1 Lela McKnight-Eily,2 Geraldine Perry,2 and Deborah A. Galuska3 1 Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, Mailstop K-33, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA 2 Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA 3 Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Richard Lowry, rxl1@ Received 6 September 2011; Accepted 20 November 2011 Academic Editor: Terry Huang Copyright © 2012 Richard Lowry et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Increasing attention is being focused on sleep duration as a potential modifiable risk factor associated with obesity in children and adolescents. We analyzed data from the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey to describe the association of obesity (self-report BMI ≥95th percentile) with self-reported sleep duration on an average school night, among a representative sample of US high school students. Using logistic regression to control for demographic and behavioral confounders, a