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Inadequate Sleep Affects Glucose Levels PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, 15 May 2011 06:10

Many people suffer from insomnia and when their eyes refuse to close even for a brief, quality sleep, this can be a very big problem and it may affect body health. Maybe after learning how insomnia may cause the diabetes worse, you will be able to have a hint to prevent or reduce the higher risk and to avoid the potential complications in future.

Through a study, it is learned that higher blood glucose has a certain connection to insomnia. So, how can sleep and high insulin resistance be connected?

People with diabetic should start giving serious concern that lack of sleep can make the diseases worse. After monitoring the sleep patterns of 40 people with diabetes during six nights, people with inadequate amounts of sleep had 23% higher blood glucose levels and 48% higher blood insulin levels in the morning. The result produced after the research shows that diabetic people with insomnia had 82% higher insulin resistance than those who don’t have problem with sleep.

People who live with diabetic tend to have more inadequate sleep quality compared to the general population. Therefore, they must be able to get away from their poor sleep problems in order to prevent it of worsen the disease. Most sleep problems or sleep disorders – like obstructive sleep apnea – seem to be the common problems for people whose diabetes is Type 2.

When people with diabetic face the poor sleep quality every night, they also tend to have a tough time controlling the blood glucose levels. The worse, this blood glucose levels problem may lead to the higher risk like other complications. It means, people with diabetes are on high risk to have their quality of life reduced. This insomnia problem should be given serious attention because this is associated with the life expectancy on many diabetic patients.

 

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