Insomnia or a bad night sleep not only makes you exhaust and ill-tempered but it also increases the risk of developing diabetes, new study suggests. If someone takes only four hours of sleep in one night then it can intensively affect on the body’s capability to use insulin to convert sugar into energy.
Interruption in this fragile process can lead to diabetes. This condition can cause number of complications in body that may include heart disease, amputations and blindness. Due to alarming increase in cases of diabetes worldwide, it is suggested that sleepless nights caused by the stress of modern life are least to blame.
To confirm link between insomnia and diabetes researchers examined nine healthy volunteers, to check their body’s efficiency to process sugar. They examined it two times once after sleep of eight hours and once after sleep of four hours. They found that halving the time of sleep has reduced the ability of body to use insulin to process sugar. This called insulin sensitivity.
Previous studies have shown that poor sleep for several nights can raise the level of sugar but this study firstly shows that even one bad night sleep due to busy day can be injurious to health. Insulin sensitivity is not fixed in healthy people but it depends up on the duration of sleep in the previous night.
In the past decade the sleep duration has reduced significantly in Western societies and at the same time there has been an increase in the incidence of type-2 diabetes and insulin resistance explain Researchers from Leiden University Medical Centre.