Correction to: International Journal of Obesity accepted article preview 24 March 2015; doi:10.1038/ijo.2015.38

Since publication of this article the authors have noticed an error in the affiliations.

Affiliation for Dr R Bao and Dr J Andrade should be ‘Center for Research Informatics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA’. Hence, affiliations should read as follows:

R Cortese1, A Khalyfa1, R Bao2, J Andrade2 and D Gozal1

1Section of Pediatric Sleep Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, IL, USA

2Center for Research Informatics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

The corrected article appears in this issue and the html and online pdf versions have also been amended. The authors would like to apologize for these errors.