Study Indicates Too Much, Too Little Sleep May Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk In Men.

reports in its “Well” blog that a study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that men who get insufficient or too much sleep “may have an increased risk for Type 2 diabetes.” For the study, researchers focused on 788 healthy men and women, “measuring their sleep duration using electronic monitors and testing them for markers of diabetes – how well pancreatic cells take up glucose and how sensitive the body’s tissues are to insulin.” They found that the average sleep time for men and women was about seven hours, and that as men slept longer or less, “their glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity decreased, gradually increasing the deleterious health effects.” http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/sleep-problems-tied-to-diabetes-in-men/?_r=0