Type 2 Diabetes and Sleep Disturbances

When your blood sugar level is high, the kidneys try to get rid of the excess sugar. So sleep is disturbed as you get up frequently to urinate. Keep the blood sugar level under control and sleep well.

Diabetes is a fast increasing lifestyle metabolic disorder. Adequate sleep is important for proper functioning of the body. The rampant deprivation of sleep can lead to a slew of health ailments.

Human sleep occurs in the form of circadian cycle. A circadian rhythm implies to a 24-hours physiological cycle that determines the sleep and waking pattern of living beings.

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Diabetes type 2 affects the normal sleep-wake cycle however not much is known about the exact mechanism causing it.

Tomoko Nakanishi et al conducted a study to analyze the bedtime, waking time and average estimated sleep in non-type 2 diabetic and type 2 diabetic individuals. The study was published in the journal of Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome 2012.

106 respondents were categorized in two groups: non-type 2 diabetics (32) and type 2 diabetics (74). Questionnaire comprising of various questions on sleep status and lifestyle related diseases was given to them and results were analyzed.

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It was discovered that on weekdays the type 2 diabetic respondents went to bed later than the non-type2 diabetics. Type 2 diabetic patients also woke up relatively later than the non-diabetics on weekdays and holidays. However no considerable differences were noticed in the sleep duration in the two groups of respondents. Type 2 diabetics were reported to sleep more than the non-diabetics in daytime.

The study concluded that the irregularities of sleep-wake cycle are common in type 2 diabetic individuals in contrast to non- type 2 diabetics. Further research is required to confirm the role of such sleep abnormalities in type2 diabetes mellitus patients.

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Reference:

Sleep-wake cycle irregularities in type 2 diabetics; Tomoko Nakanishi et al; Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome 2012

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