Children Who Sleep Less May Have Higher Risk For Type 2 Diabetes,

“Well” blog reports researchers studying 4,525 nine- and 10-year-olds found that the fewer hours a child sleeps per night, the higher that child’s risk for type 2 diabetes. Parents said their children slept an average of 10 hours per night, “with 95 percent sleeping between eight and 12 hours.” The study, published in Pediatrics, “found that the less sleep, the more likely the children were to have higher body mass indexes, higher insulin resistance and higher glucose readings.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/well/family/less-sleep-tied-to-diabetes-risk-in-children.html