Sleep Increase Risk of Diabetes

When Shakespeare called sleep as "the most important nutrition poster in the good life", he might be healthy during her life, at least medically.

Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center reported, sleep disturbances damage the body's ability to regulate blood sugar levels, potentially increasing the risk of a type 2 diabetes.

More than 18 million Americans have diabetes, and most are type 2. The symptoms, the body becomes resistant to the hormone insulin or does not produce enough to regulate the flow of blood in the blood.

The study led by Dr. Esra Tasali, assistant professor of medicine, studied the sleep patterns of nine volunteers, five men and four women, with normal weight, good health condition and age between 20-31.

Normal sleep is divided into several stages, where stage slow-wave sleep considered the deepest.
When the volunteers reached the stage of slow-wave sleep, the researchers made noise enough to disturb their sleep, but without waking them.

The researchers reported, after three days, the ability of volunteers to manage blood sugar dropped to 25 percent.
The results of previous studies indicate lack of sleep can reduce the ability to regulate sugar. This report is additional evidence that sleep quality is also less risk of diabetes. AP | Nieke Indrietta

Source: TEMPO Interactive