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    "title": "TAP reading note: Ad libitum Weekend Recovery Sleep Fails to Prevent Metabolic Dysregulation during a Repeating Pattern of Insufficient Sleep and Weekend Recovery Sleep",
    "description": "Weekend recovery sleep did not prevent metabolic disruption when participants returned to insufficient sleep. The result concerns a repeating short-sleep pattern, rather than every possible benefit of sleeping longer.",
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      "id": "depner-2019",
      "title": "Ad libitum Weekend Recovery Sleep Fails to Prevent Metabolic Dysregulation during a Repeating Pattern of Insufficient Sleep and Weekend Recovery Sleep",
      "authors": "Christopher M. Depner · Edward L. Melanson · Robert H. Eckel · Janet K. Snell-Bergeon · Leigh Perreault · Bryan C. Bergman · Janine A. Higgins · Molly K. Guerin · Ellen R. Stothard · Sarah J. Morton · Kenneth P. Wright",
      "journal": "Current Biology",
      "year": "2019",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.069",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.069",
      "pmid": "30827911"
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      {
        "id": "depner-2019",
        "title": "Ad libitum Weekend Recovery Sleep Fails to Prevent Metabolic Dysregulation during a Repeating Pattern of Insufficient Sleep and Weekend Recovery Sleep",
        "authors": "Christopher M. Depner · Edward L. Melanson · Robert H. Eckel · Janet K. Snell-Bergeon · Leigh Perreault · Bryan C. Bergman · Janine A. Higgins · Molly K. Guerin · Ellen R. Stothard · Sarah J. Morton · Kenneth P. Wright",
        "journal": "Current Biology",
        "year": "2019",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.069",
        "doi": "10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.069",
        "pmid": "30827911"
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      {
        "id": "finding",
        "title": "What the study found",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Weekend recovery sleep did not prevent metabolic disruption when participants returned to insufficient sleep. The result concerns a repeating short-sleep pattern, rather than every possible benefit of sleeping longer."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "limits",
        "title": "Scope & limitations",
        "paragraphs": [
          "36 healthy young adults: eight controls, 14 with sustained sleep restriction and 14 with weekend recovery followed by renewed restriction.",
          "Small laboratory groups and a short exposure period limit generalization. The study does not show that catch-up sleep has no value or provide a personal sleep-debt calculator."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "sample",
        "title": "Population & sample",
        "paragraphs": [
          "36 healthy young adults: eight controls, 14 with sustained sleep restriction and 14 with weekend recovery followed by renewed restriction."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "exposure",
        "title": "Exposure or intervention",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Five-hour sleep opportunities, with or without two days of unrestricted weekend sleep, compared with nine-hour opportunities."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "outcomes",
        "title": "Outcomes",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Sleep, circadian timing, food intake, body weight and insulin sensitivity."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "duration",
        "title": "Time frame",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Nine-night intervention patterns; the weekend-recovery group returned to restriction for the final two nights."
        ]
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          "Not yet checked against the full publication."
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        "title": "Research conflicts of interest",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Not yet checked against the full publication."
        ]
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        "title": "Reading scope",
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          "Based on the original publication’s abstract and bibliographic record. This is a selected reading note, not a systematic appraisal."
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