The overarching study aim is to evaluate the development of sleep behavior and gut microbiota (GMB), and their potential interaction, during the vulnerable period of the first year of life. Age-specific fecal profiles with bacterial genome sequencing will provide new insight into the functional coevolution of the GMB and host sleep behavior.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
128
University Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
RECRUITINGDifferences in sleep phenotypes (high fragmentation vs low fragmentation, short vs long sleepers)
Time frame: across the first twelve months of life
Differences in Gut Microbiome Diversity (alpha, beta, Shannon) and taxa abundance and association with sleep phenotypes
Time frame: across the first twelve months of life
Association of primary outcome measures with cognitive and behavioral questionnaires (Food, development, Sleep)
Time frame: across the first twelve months of life
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