People Who Don’t Consistently Get Same Amount Of Sleep Or Go To Bed At Same Time May Be More Likely To Develop Diabetes And Other Conditions, Study Suggests

reports a recent study suggests that “people who don’t consistently get the same amount of sleep or go to bed at the same time each night may be more likely to develop health problems like obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.” Researchers “had 2,003 patients do home-based sleep studies for one week using devices known as actigraphs, which assess nighttime movements and sleep-wake cycles.” The study was published in Diabetes Care. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-bedtime-metabolic-syndrome/varied-bedtimes-tied-to-obesity-diabetes-high-blood-pressure-idUSKCN1TX2YH