TY - T1 - Is It Time We Stop Discouraging Evening Physical Activity? New Real-World Evidence From 150,000 Nights SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/337642 T3 - A1 - Kahn, Michal; Korhonen, Topi; Leinonen, Leena; Martinmaki, Kaisu; Kuula, Liisa; Pesonen, Anu-Katriina; Gradisar, Michael A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - Professional and colloquial sleep hygiene guidelines advise against evening physical activity, despite meta-analyses of laboratory studies concluding that evening exercise does not impair sleep. This study is the first to investigate the association between objectively measured evening physical activity and sleep within a real-world big-data sample. A total of 153,154 nights from 12,638 individuals aged 18-60 years (M = 40.1 SD = 10.1; 44.5% female) were analyzed. Nighttime sleep and minutes of ... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - physical activity; evening exercise; sleep hygiene; sleep quality; sleep duration; big-data; CIRCADIAN-RHYTHM; SLEEP; EXERCISE; PHASE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; MELATONIN; BENEFITS; QUALITY; 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health N1 - PP - ER -