Do you have diabetes? How much sleep do you get each night? The May issue of Diabetes Care includes an article about a study in which researchers compared 40 people with type 2 diabetes to 531 folks without the blood sugar disease. They looked at the potential links between sleep quality, blood glucose levels and other measures of diabetes control.
What they found was that there was an association between poor sleep quality and worse glucose measures. U.S. News & World Report talked with Kristen Knutson, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. She said, “It may be that people with diabetes are more vulnerable to the effects of impaired sleep. But it could go either way. … We need to look more closely at the role of sleep in diabetes.”
In the study, researchers found that those with diabetes who had trouble sleeping had a 23% higher fasting blood glucose level, a 48% higher fasting insulin level, and an 82% higher insulin resistance than normal sleepers with diabetes.
Dr. Joel Zonszein, director of the Clinical Diabetes Center at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, noted that those with type 2 diabetes are overweight and excess weight may impair sleep quality. And, obesity is linked with sleep apnea.
For folks with diabetes, the quality of their sleep could make a difference.
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