[NOW Health Compilation Team/Foreign News Report]Insufficient sleep is related to a series of health problems, but can mild lack of sleep also cause damage to health? A recent study found that even mild chronic sleep deprivation may increase insulin resistance in women, thereby increasing their risk of type 2 diabetes.
Lack of sleep in women may increase risk of type 2 diabetes?Foreign research reveals the truth
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For healthy adults, the recommended amount of sleep is 7 to 9 hours per day, yet approximately 1 in 3 adults in the United States do not meet this requirement.
Columbia University researchers found that women who missed 90 minutes of sleep over a six-week period had a 12% increase in fasting insulin levels compared with women who got enough sleep.Among them, the impact of lack of sleep is particularly obvious in menopausal women, whose fasting insulin levels increase by 15%.Research resultPublished in the journal Diabetes Care.
Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar. Hyperinsulinemia or increased insulin levels are related to insulin resistance. This is a condition in which the body does not respond adequately to insulin and is also a common early symptom of type 2 diabetes. 1.
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For the study, the researchers recruited 38 healthy women, including 11 menopausal women, who slept at least seven hours a day. The researchers specifically chose to target women because they believed that sleep deprivation was harmful to women. The heart health impact is greater for men than for men.
Research leader Marie-Pierre St-Onge pointed out that throughout the life cycle, women face many changes in sleep habits due to reasons such as childbirth, parenting and menopause. Therefore, women are more likely to suffer from sleep deprivation than men. During the study, participants were randomly divided into 2 phases, each lasting 6 weeks. During one phase, participants went to bed 90 minutes later each night, reducing their total sleep time to about six hours. In addition, in this study, researchers asked participants to use wearable tracking devices to record their sleep time and measure their insulin, glucose and body fat values.
Light sleep loss can actually increase insulin resistance, especially in this group of people
Although average blood sugar remained stable throughout the study period for all participants, insulin resistance increased by nearly 15 percent overall and by more than 20 percent among menopausal women, the researchers said.
Marie-Pierre St-Onge said that although there were no abnormal changes in body fat, this study shows that a slight loss of sleep can have a negative impact on insulin-producing cells and metabolism, thereby increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes. Therefore, the conclusion is that if everyone gets enough sleep every night, it may help control blood sugar and thereby reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Especially for menopausal women, the effect may be more significant.
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