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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4453</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2022.14904</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Relationship of Work Hours and Sleep Hours with Anthropometric Measures in Pakistani Laborers in Saudi Arabia&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mehtab</surname><given-names>Mehreen</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Khan</surname><given-names>Farooq Ahmad</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Malik</surname><given-names>Muhammad Atif</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Malik</surname><given-names>Seemin Kashif</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>3</day><month>05</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>19</fpage><lpage>25</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Obesity is a known risk factor for type2 DM, hypertension, fatty liver, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Long work hours and short sleep duration might lead to obesity in migrant workers. Objective/Aim: Study was done to show the effects of work hours and sleep hours on the nutritional status of Pakistani laborers working in KSA. Method: It was a cross-sectional study. Pakistani male, 25-60 years old, unskilled and semi-skilled workers were included. Sociodemographic profile, length of work hours, and sleep hours were recorded. Anthropometric measures included BMI, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), and conicity index (CI). Results: About 80% of participants were 48 hours/week, and half of the participants slept for __ampersandsignlt;7 hours/day. BMI, WHtR, and CI were higher than normal in the older group only, but WC and WHR were higher than normal in both groups.WHR and CI were significantly and negatively correlated with sleep hours categories. Binary regression analysis could not show effect of work and sleep hours on any of the anthropometric measures. Conclusion: Long work hours were not associated with obesity, however, fewer sleep hours were associated with obesity.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Sleep</kwd><kwd> Work hours</kwd><kwd> BMI</kwd><kwd> Waist circumference</kwd><kwd> Binary regression analysis</kwd><kwd> Obesity</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
