Sleep Well to Lower Diabetes Risk
People who do not get enough sleep on a regular basis may become less sensitive to insulin, which, over time, can raise the risk of obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. In fact, researchers have suggested that sleep deprivation, which is becoming commonplace in industrialized countries, may play a role in the current epidemic of type 2 diabetes.
According to the study, led by Dr. Eve Van Cauter, of the University of Chicago, healthy adults who averaged 316 minutes of sleep a night--about 5.2 hours--over 8 consecutive nights secreted 50% more insulin than their more rested counterparts who averaged 477 minutes of sleep a night, or about 8 hours. As a result, ``short sleepers'' were 40% less sensitive to insulin.
In fact, chronic sleep deprivation--6.5 hours or less of sleep a night--had the same effect on insulin resistance as aging, according to the researcher in the study.
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