Washington: There’s growing evidence that lack of sleep can raise risk of diabetes, heart disease and other health problems. People who regularly stay awake at night and take too little sleep are at the risk of the above-mentioned problems.
“We have a societal conspiracy for sleep deprivation,” says Russell Sanna of Harvard Medical School’s sleep medicine division. Scientists call sleep loss one of health care’s big challenges.
Many a research has shown that people who sleep fewer than five hours a night have an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, the kind that tends to strike later in life.
Rotating shift work also raises the risk, says a recent study from researchers who analyzed years of medical records from the huge Nurses’ Health Study.
Neuroscientist Orfeu Buxton of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital said as sleep dropped and normal biological rhythms were disrupted, a person’s body physically changed in ways that could help set the stage for diabetes.
Up to 70 million Americans are estimated to suffer from chronic problems with sleep. Impaired sleep has been linked to high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, depression, memory impairment and a weakened immune system.
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