Sleep Deprivation Can Cause Insulin Resistance

Fri, 07 May 2010
New research highlights that sleeping for a short period of time at night can result in insulin resistance, a trigger for Type 2 diabetes .

The researchers studied nine individuals twice, once after a night of normal sleep duration of eight hours and once upon the participants having slept just for four hours.

The study leader, Esther Donga, from the Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands, stated that both the incidences of short sleeping hours and rise in insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes have been seen in the past decade.

The study findings demonstrate significant effects on metabolic regulation than hitherto appreciated.

Sleep disturbances are usual for diabetics who report higher rates of sleepless nights and experience daytime sleepiness.

The identification of sleep disorders in diabetics and improvement of quality and quantity of sleep can help treatment of sleep disorders like sleep apnea .

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