A team of medical researchers with a diverse mix of backgrounds, all in the Netherlands, has found a link between sleep duration habits and the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, regardless of other lifestyle risk factors. In their study, reported in the journal Sleep Health, the group analyzed data obtained as part of the Maastricht Study regarding sleeping duration.
. In the study, which ran from 2010 to 2018, 10,000 volunteers underwent medical examinations and other testing designed to explore why some people get some diseases and others do not. In this new effort, the research team used data from the study to look for a link between sleep patterns and type 2 diabetes.
In their work, the research team looked at data for 5,561 volunteers between the ages of 40 and 75 years old. The researchers analyzed data describing sleep habits, most specifically, the number of hours on average a person slept—such data was provided via questionnaires and accelerometers attached to the thigh. Each of the volunteers also had regular glucose tolerance tests to determine if they were nondiabetic, prediabetic or if they had type 2 diabetes .
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