Disrupted Worse Raises Diabetes Risk in Men, New Study Finds

Rebecca Lewis July 06, 2016

Poor quality sleep may be affecting men more than women. According to the latest study by Dutch researchers, sleeping more than average cut men’s ability to use insulin, which make them at greater risk of diabetes. 

“In men, sleeping too much or too little was related to less responsiveness of the cells in the body to insulin, reducing glucose uptake and thus increasing the risk of developing diabetes in the future.” said Researcher Dr Femke Rutters of the VU Medical Centre in Amsterdam.  

‘In women, no such association was observed. 

Dr Rutters added that this research shows how important sleep is to a key aspect of health. He notes that men are known to get less deep, restorative sleep than women, and so their health may suffer more from sleep deprivation.


For the study, asked 800 healthy middle-aged male and female volunteers to wear a device that tracked their sleep and underwent tests to show how well their body was able to use insulin, the sugar-processing hormone at the root of diabetes.
 

The volunteers slept for an average of seven hours and 18 minutes. 

When the women slept longer than this, their bodies were better at using insulin. 

And the longer they slept, the more responsive they were to the hormone, suggesting their risk of diabetes was reduced. 

Such discovery may help in reducing the soaring rate of diabetes, which is the fastest growing health threat of our times and an urgent public health issue, according to the charity Diabetes UK. The researchers added that it is also possible that men who regularly oversleep are already ill in some way. If nothing changes, it is estimated that over five million people in the UK will have diabetes. 

The new findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Source of this article: 

Why women can get away with a lie-in: Disrupted sleep is worse for men - and can increase the risk of diabetes

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