Science Forum: Sex differences and sex bias in human circadian and sleep physiology research

Manuel Spitschan; Nayantara Santhi; Amrita Ahluwalia; Dorothee Fischer; Lilian Hunt; Natasha Karp; Francis Lévi; Ines Pineda-Torra; Parisa Vidafar; Rhiannon White

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Science Forum: Sex differences and sex bias in human circadian and sleep physiology research

Manuel Spitschan^*, Nayantara Santhi^*, Amrita Ahluwalia, Dorothee Fischer, Lilian Hunt, Natasha Karp, Francis Lévi, Ines Pineda-Torra, Parisa Vidafar, Rhiannon White

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Growing evidence shows that sex differences impact many facets of human biology. Here we review and discuss the impact of sex on human circadian and sleep physiology, and we uncover a data gap in the field investigating the non-visual effects of light in humans. A virtual workshop on the biomedical implications of sex differences in sleep and circadian physiology led to the following imperatives for future research: i) design research to be inclusive and accessible; ii) implement recruitment strategies that lead to a sex-balanced sample; iii) use data visualization to grasp the effect of sex; iv) implement statistical analyses that include sex as a factor and/or perform group analyses by sex, where possible; v) make participant-level data open and available to facilitate future meta-analytic efforts.

Original language	English
Article number	e65419
Pages (from-to)	1-14
Number of pages	14
Journal	eLife
Volume	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.65419
Publication status	Published - 18 Feb 2022

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