Item #4
Get
Enough Sleep and Avoid Diabetes
Sleeping
five hours or less or nine hours or more each night may increase your
risk of developing diabetes.
Prior
to the invention of the electric light bulb, which has allowed us to
transform night into day, people were sleeping NINE hours per night.
While there are many benefits of electric light, constantly neglecting
our sleeping needs poses a huge risk to our health.
After
following more than 70,000 diabetes-free women for a 10-year period,
researchers found that women who slept five hours or less every night
were 34 percent more likely to develop diabetes symptoms than women
who slept for seven or eight hours each night.
Comparatively,
women who slept nine hours or more each night were 35 percent more
likely to develop diabetes symptoms.
During
the course of the study, which began in 1986, 1,969 women developed
diabetes and most showed symptoms of the condition.
Researchers
were not certain why sleeping too much or too little might be linked
to diabetes, though one theory involves leptin, a hormone that may
play a role in signaling the body to stop eating.
Too
little sleep may reduce levels of leptin, possibly causing people to
gain weight and develop diabetes. When researchers removed factors
such as overweight and obesity, too little sleep was not linked to
diabetes, which suggests that sleep may indirectly affect diabetes by
promoting weight gain.
One
theory why too much sleep may increase diabetes risk is that people
who sleep a lot tend to have poorer health in general. They may also
have sleep apnea, a condition that may prevent restful sleep and cause
people to sleep more overall due to feeling tired. Independently,
sleep apnea may also increase diabetes risk.
Diabetes
Care Feb, 2003;26:380-4
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your Patients Check Their Own A1c Levels.
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Pharmacist Association
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