Sleeping Less Than Six Hours a Night Causes Insulin Resistance in Women

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Regularly getting too little sleep has been associated with developing type 2 diabetes, so researchers set out to gather information on why this might happen. Thirty-eight women who usually got seven to nine hours of sleep a night were asked to cut their sleep time by one-and-a-half hours a night. Blood glucose and insulin levels were measured during six weeks of regular sleep and six weeks of restricted sleep.

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