Lack of Sleep Increase Risk of Diabetes

Mon, 30 Jan 2012
Those who have difficulties sleeping are six times more susceptible to developing diabetes and heart disease. These are the findings of new research.

This helps to explain why night shift workers are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

The study of 20,000 participants discovered that any of four specific variants of the gene were at higher greater risk, which gives hope for personalised treatments for type 2 diabetes .

Scientists state that the protein at fault, called MT2, can interrupt the link between our 24 hour rhythm and the release of insulin, which triggers inadequate control of blood sugar, which leads to the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Blood sugar control is regulated by our bodies' biological clock. So when that has been disrupted, problems arise.

This study helps towards understanding how the gene that carries the blueprint for a major part of our biological clock can affect our risk of developing diabetes.

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