Naps longer than an hour linked to type-2 diabetes warning signs

Naps longer than an hour linked to type-2 diabetes warning signs
Taking nap for more than an hour during the daytime may be a warning sign for type-2 diabetes.

Shorter naps, in contrast, were more likely to increase alertness and motor skills, the authors said. Naveed Sattar, professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow, said ‘It’s likely that risk factors which lead to diabetes also cause napping. This could include slightly high sugar levels, meaning napping may be an early warning sign of diabetes.’ However, he even mentioned that proper trials were needed to determine whether sleeping patterns made a difference to ‘real health outcomes’. Dr Benjamin Cairns, from the cancer epidemiology unit at the University of Oxford, said the findings should be treated with caution, ‘In general, it is not possible to make conclusions about cause and effect based on observational studies alone, because usually they cannot rule out alternative explanations for their findings.’ The study is being presented at a meeting of the European Association for the Study o f Diabetes in Munich. Read about scientists identify exactly how type 2 diabetes develops.

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