Study financed by National Health Institutes to monitor Type-2 diabetes pattern in women. The study published by Diabetes Care, showed women body with chronic sleeplessness develops resistance for insulin and highly imbalanced blood sugar level. Postmenopausal women are more prone to be effected by Type-2 diabetes due to disturbed sleeping pattern.
Women report poorer sleep than men and have immense effect post menopause said Marishka Brown, Ph.D., director of the National Center on Sleep Disorder Research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which co-funded the study with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), both part of NIH.
Previous Studies On Sleep Deprivation
Early studies by the institute showed severe results of Sleep deprivation such as cardiovascular disease, poor mental health, imbalanced glucose level, insulin resistance and so on. However, the study was conducted only on men, focused on short-term sleep restriction.
The current study only involved women with prolonged or mild sleep restrictions, reducing total sleep just by 1.5 hours daily, that dramatically elevated insulin resistance in body. When the body become resistant to insulin, they become less efficient to utilize insulin increasing the risk of Type-2 diabetes.
The scientists also examined whether alterations in body weight could account for the observed shifts in insulin and glucose levels, given that individuals often consume more when sleep-deprived. Yet, they discovered that the impact on insulin resistance was mostly unaffected by changes in body weight. Moreover, when the women resumed their usual 7-9 hours of nightly sleep, insulin and glucose levels reverted to normal.
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