Sleep and diabetes
Working with Liese’s research team, Debbie Beihl, the paper’s lead author and a student at Southern Adventist University, analyzed five years of data from the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study. Among the 900 diabetes-free participants, who ranged in age from 40 – 69 at the beginning of the study, 146 developed Type 2 diabetes.
“Our study adds to the growing body of research on the role that sleep has on diabetes,” Beihl said. “More research is needed among minority populations.”
Visit http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10472797 to learn more about the study and http://www.sph.sc.edu for information on the Arnold School of Public Health.
Posted: 04/29/09 @ 12:00 AM | Updated: 05/28/09 @ 12:53 PM | Permalink