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Sleep Duration a Risk for Diabetes

Researchers studied a group of men participating in the Massachusetts MaleAging Study who did not have diabetes during the 1987–1989 baselineperiod. The researchers kept track of cases of diabetes during a follow-upperiod that lasted until 2004. Participants were surveyed about their sleepinghabits, with the results grouped into hours of sleep per night —5,6, 7, 8, or >8 hours. Using 7 nightly hours of sleep as a reference point,the relative risks of different sleep patterns were calculated.

Men reporting short or long sleep duration had greater risk of developingtype 2 diabetes, according to researchers. Those who slept <5 and 6 hourswere nearly twice as likely to develop diabetes, and those who slept >8hours per night were more than three times as likely to develop diabetes,compared with men who slept 7 hours per night.

Sleep duration, the authors observe, may be a novel and underappreciatedrisk factor for type 2 diabetes.

Yaggi HK, Araujo AB, McKinlay JB: Sleep duration as a riskfactor for the development of type 2 diabetes. DiabetesCare 29:657–661, 2006[Abstract/Free Full Text] .

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