Healthy Sleep Could Prevent The Onset Of Diabetes In Teenagers

Onset of diabetes in teenagers could be prevented if they slept more as more sleep improves insulin resistance.
High levels of insulin resistance can lead to the onset of diabetes and lowering insulin resistance is thus very important in preventing it.

According to a new study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh.Increasing the amount of sleep that teenagers get could improve their insulin resistance and prevent the future onset of diabetes.

Sleep duration and insulin resistance were tracked in 245 teenagers. Results showed that this higher resistance to insulin was associated with shorter sleep duration regardless of race, age, gender etc.

According to the lead author of this study, Karen Matthews, this study is the only one that has shown this relationship in healthy teenagers, that is independent of obesity.