Dr. Adam P. Knowlden

Current Research

Adam with equipment
  • Title: Adiposity and Sleep-Associated Cardiometabolic
    Disease     Risk Factors, National Heart, Lung, & Blood
    Institute,     National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (2019-2024).
  • Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Grant Tracking Number: GRANT12745492
  • Application/Award ID: 1K01HL145128-01A1
  • Aims: (1) Specific Aim 1: To Determine the Relationship between Adiposity and Sleep Duration; (2) To Evaluate
    Sex-Based Differences in the Relationship between
    Adiposity and Sleep Duration; (3) To Assess whether
    Adiposity and Sleep Duration Influence Cardiometabolic Outcomes; (4) To Explore the Role of Socio-Ecological
    Factors as Effect Modifiers in the Relationship between
    Adiposity, Sleep, and Cardiometabolic Outcomes.
  • Status: Funded ($817,595).

  • Title: Social-Ecological Model-Based Predictors of Sleep Duration, Research Committee Grant Seed Funding, Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (2016-2019).
  • Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Aims: (1) To Determine the Extent to which the Five Primary Levels of the Social-Ecological Model Predict Poor and Good Quality Sleep; (2) To Determine the Extent to which Social-Ecological Predictors of Sleep Differ According to the Body Mass Index Weight Categories of Normal Weight and Overweight/Obese.
  • Status: Funded ($6,000).