People with difficulties in sleeping, either because of a sleep disorder such as insomnia, do not reach the recommended sleep hours and do not have a sufficiently ‘repairing’ break to face the day in optimal conditions.
But this dream of ‘worse quality’, in addition to fatigue and lack of concentration, is also associated with a higher risk of numerous diseases.It is the case, for example, of an increased risk of stroke in the elderly.
Or in the specific case of women, as shown by a study carried out by researchers from the T.H.Chan from Harvard University (USA), of a much higher risk of type 2 diabetes.
As Yanping Li, director of this research published in the "Diabetologia", "the difficulty of sleeping is significantly associated with type 2 diabetes explains. An association that, at least partially, is explained by its relationship with blood pressure,a high body mass index (BMI) and the symptoms of depression and that, in addition, is particularly intense when combined with other sleep disorders ».
Insomnes at risk
To carry out the study, the researchers analyzed the relationship between the difficulty of sleeping and diabetes from the data of 133,353 women who had not been diagnosed with diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer at the time of inclusion in two important studiesAmerican epidemiological-the health study of nurses (NHS; 2000-2010) and NHS II (2001-2011)-.Once the 10 -year follow -up was completed, a total of 6,407 women ended up developing type 2 diabetes.
And, exactly, what does ‘difficulty sleeping?Because as established by the authors, not to remain sleeping during ‘all night’ or the ‘most of the night’.Or what would be the same, insomnia.
The results showed that participants with difficulty sleeping had a 47% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who managed to sleep ‘from the pull’.
More;The risk of diabetes increased as the different sleep disorders evaluated in the study were combined: the aforementioned difficulty in sleep;usually snoring, what could indicate sleep apnea;sleep less than 6 hours a day;and sleep apnea (NHS) or labor shift changes (NHS II).
The difficulty of sleeping is associated with type 2 diabetes, and this association is more intense when several sleep disorders are combined.
Specifically, suffering two of sleep disorders practically doubled the risk of type 2 diabetes, while presenting three or four entailed that the probability of developing the disease would increase, respectively, up to three and four times.
you have to sleep well
In short, and in order to prevent the development of diabetes, the population must avoid unhealthy behaviors such as, among others, gain weight or do nothing to control their blood pressure.And to that it would be added, at least in the case of women, try to sleep well.
As Yanping Li concludes, «our results verify the importance of good sleep patterns and sleep sufficient hours in order to prevent type 2 diabetes. Some findings, therefore, that must be taken into account in future research on theDiabetes prevention in the population at high risk with multiple sleep disorders ».