CEHS Graduate

Kristen Knutson, PhD

Research Associate (Assistant Professor)
Department of Health Studies
University of Chicago
5840 S. Maryland Ave., MC 1027
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773-834-1973
Fax: 773-702-1979
Email: kknutson@health.bsd.uchicago.edu

Dissertation

Sleep, health and socioeconomic status among adolescents of the national longitudinal study of adolescent health

Publications

in press:
KL Knutson and DS Lauderdale. Sleep duration and overweight in adolescents: Self-reported sleep hours versus time diaries. PediatricsElectronic Pages.

2006:
DS. Lauderdale, KL Knutson, LL. Yan , PJ. Rathouz, SB. Hulley, S Sidney, K Liu. Objectively Measured Sleep Characteristics Among Early Middle-Aged Adults: The CARDIA Study. American Journal of Epidemiology 164:5-16.

KL. Knutson & FW Turek. The U-Shaped Association Between Sleep and Health: The 2 Peaks Do Not Mean the Same Thing (editorial). Sleep 29:878-879.

KL. Knutson, AM. Ryden, BA. Mander, E Van Cauter. Role of sleep duration and quality in the risk and severity of type 2 diabetes. Archives of Internal Medicine 166:1768-1774.

KL Knutson , P Rathouz, L Yan, K Liu, D Lauderdale. Stability of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Epworth Sleepiness questionnaires over one year in early middle-aged adults: The CARDIA Study. Sleep 29:1503-1506.

2005:
Knutson, KL. The association between pubertal status and sleep duration and quality among a nationally representative sample of US adolescents. American Journal of Human Biology 17:418-424.

K Spiegel, K Knutson, R Leproult, E Tasali and E Van Cauter. Sleep Loss: A Novel Risk Factor for Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes. Journal of Applied Physiology 99:2008-2019.

KL Knutson. Sex differences in the association between sleep and body mass index in adolescents. Journal of Pediatrics 147:830-834.

Van Cauter, E, K Knutson, R Leproult, K Spiegel. The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Hormones and Metabolism. Medscape Neurology & Neurosurgery. 2005; 7(1). Available at: www.medscape.com.

Van Cauter, E, K Knutson, R Leproult and K Spiegel. Endocrine correlates of sleep loss. INSOM. Issue 4 March 2005: 4-12.

KL Knutson, A Miller, S Pannain. Q&A re: glucose control during the night shift. Diabetes Self-Management, July/August 2005, p71-72.

2004:
Environmental Factors. L. Schell and K. Knutson. In, Physiological and Pathological Auxology. I. Nicoletti, G. Gilli and L. Benso (eds), Firenze, Italy: Edizioni Centro Studi Auxologici. Pp. 567-580.

2002:
Schell, LM, Knutsen, KL. "Environmental Effects on Growth." N Cameron (ed). Human Growth and Development. New York: Academic Press, 2002:165-196.