A Good Nights Sleep Could Reduce Diabetes Amongst Teenagers

Wed, 21 Sep 2011
Recent research highlights that a good night's sleep could keep type 2 diabetes at bay.

The study of 62 teenagers demonstrated that sleeping between 7.5 hours and 8.5 hours a night maintained insulin and blood sugar at their optimum level.

Spending less or more time in bed raised the likelihood of increased glucose levels, with less deep sleep triggering insulin levels to fall.

These findings intimate that a healthy sleeping pattern could help key diabetes at bay. All the diabetic study participants were obese and based at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said.

Another 2007 study found that nearly a third of British teenagers sleep only for between four to seven hours a night.

Dr Dorit Koren, study leader, stated that these findings support prior research which highlighted that adults who experience sleep deprivation were more susceptible to type 2 diabetes .

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