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Diabetes implication for insomnia sufferers
09 Jun 2009
A shortage of sleep can increase the risk factor for developing diabetes, research due to be presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies shows.
A study of 1,741 men and women from central Pennsylvania found people with insomnia and objective short sleep duration have an elevated risk of the disease.
Specifically, the risk factor is at its highest in those who sleep for five hours or fewer every night, while sleeping between five and six hours a night was also found to be a disadvantage when compared to people who sleep for six hours or more.
As a result, Dr Alexandros Vgontzas, lead author and endowed chair in Sleep Disorders Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, has warned insomnia sufferers that they are at an acute health risk.
"The more severe form of insomnia (insomnia with short objective sleep duration) is associated with a risk for diabetes that is similar to the elevated risk associated with obstructive sleep apnea," Dr Vgontzas commented.
A previous investigation conducted by Dr Vgontzas into the effects of insomnia and objective short sleep found male sufferers are also at heightened risk of mortality.
One in three people in the UK are affected by bouts of insomnia, the NHS reveals.
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