Sleep Cuts Diabetes Risk
The amount of sleep we have can greatly affect our resistance to diabetes and can also avoid the inception of diabetes , a new study has suggested.
“High levels of insulin resistance can lead to the development of diabetes. We found that if teens that normally get six hours of sleep per night get one extra hour of sleep, they would improve insulin resistance by 9 percent,” said lead author Karen Matthews, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry.
The study involved around 245 participants, all high school students, whose sleep duration as well as insulin fighting levels were tracked by researchers. Participants had to keep a sleep duration log and had to wear a actigraph for one week.
The actigraph showed that the average sleeping hours of the high-school kids was 6.4 hours per day.
The results showed that insulin resistance was directly related to...