United States: A new study shows that people with diabetes who don’t get enough sleep or sleep too much are at a higher risk of severe health issues. If diabetics sleep less than usual, they are 2.6 times more likely to have problems with their small blood vessels.
This can cause damage to important organs in their bodies. On the other hand, sleeping too much also increases the risk of these problems by 2.3 times. So, it’s essential for people with diabetes to get just the right amount of sleep for their health
Short Sleep Increases Risk
As reported by HealthDay, patients who are recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, both long and short sleep durations are linked with a higher prevalence of the microvascular disease which is compared to the sound sleep at night, concluded by the research team led by Mette Johansen and Thomas Oleson with the Steno Diabetes Center Odense at the Odense University Hospital in Denmark.
Long Sleep Also Risky:
There is some small blood vessel damage which is formed by diabetes and can lead to a wide range of the complications like blindness, kidney failure, nerve damage, and heart disease, that’s what the expert says.
Sleep Duration Statistics
The numbers and figures for the patients to get short sleep and long sleep are 12 percent and 28 percent on average respectively.
Though the further researchers found out that almost 38 percent of the diabetic with short sleep and 31 percent with the long sleep and had small blood vessel damage and age radically increased the risk of the short sleep found the researchers.
Age Factor
And in the patients who are aged 62 and older than that have short sleep linked with the 5.7 times increased risk of the small blood vessel disease the results showed.
“Age amplifies the association between short sleep duration and microvascular disease, suggesting increased vulnerability among older individuals,” the research team wrote.
It might pay to include sleep as one of the factors to be addressed in people with diabetes, the team said. However, they acknowledged that more research is needed to better understand the effects of poor sleep on diabetics.
Health experts and professionals will present this particular study in the upcoming annual meeting of the European Association for the Study and Diabetes which is going to take place in Madrid this coming September.