It turns out the relationship between sleep and diabetes is complex Not getting enough sleep is a common affliction in the modern age. If you don’t always get as many hours of shut-eye as you’d like, perhaps you were concerned by news of a recent study that found people who sleep less than six hours a night are at higher risk of type 2 diabetes. So what can we make of these findings? It turns out the relationship between sleep and diabetes is complex. how much sleep they get in 24 hours. Seven to eight hours was the average and considered normal sleep. Short sleep duration was broken up into three categories: mild (six hours), moderate (five hours), and extreme (three to four hours). The researchers analyzed sleep data alongside information about people’s diets. Some 3.2 percent of participants were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes during the follow-up period. Although healthy eating habits were associated with a lower overall risk of diabetes, when people ate healthily but slept less than six hours a day, their risk of type 2 diabetes increased compared to people in the normal sleep category. The researchers found that a five-hour sleep duration was linked with a 16 percent higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, while the risk for people who slept three to four hours was 41 percent higher than for people who slept seven to eight hours.
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