{"id":1034,"date":"2018-09-07T07:23:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T07:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2018-09-07T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T07:23:09","slug":"losing-just-6-hrs-of-sleep-may-up-diabetes-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Losing just 6 hrs of sleep may up diabetes risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tokyo, <\/strong>\u00a0Being deprived of sleep for just six hours or a single night may affect the liver&#8217;s ability to produce glucose and process insulin, increasing the risk of metabolic diseases such as fatty liver and Type-2 diabetes, warns a study.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep deprivation has been associated with eating more, moving less and having a higher risk of developing Type-2 diabetes.<br \/>\nHowever, &#8220;it was not clear whether glucose intolerance was due to the changes in food intake or energy expenditure or to the sleep deprivation itself,&#8221; explained a team of researchers from Toho University in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In the study done on mice, blood glucose levels were found significantly higher in the sleep deprivation group than controls after one six-hour session of wakefulness.<\/p>\n<p>Triglyceride (fat) levels and the production of glucose in the liver also increased in the sleep deprivation group after a single wake period.<br \/>\nElevated liver triglycerides are associated with insulin resistance, or the inability of the body to process insulin properly.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, lack of sleep changed the expression of enzymes that regulate metabolism in the liver in the sleep deprivation group.<\/p>\n<p>These findings suggest that &#8220;intervention studies designed to prevent sleep deprivation-induced hepatic steatosis and insulin resistance should be performed in the future,&#8221; the researchers noted.<br \/>\nFor the study, published in the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, the team examined two groups of mice.<\/p>\n<p>One group was kept awake for six hours each night (&#8220;sleep deprivation&#8221;), while the control group was allowed to sleep as desired.<\/p>\n<p>The team offered unlimited high-fat food and sugar water &#8212; mimicking lifestyle-related food choices that people make &#8212; to both groups prior to the study.<\/p>\n<p>During the sleep\/wake period, the animals also had limited opportunity for physical activity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, \u00a0Being deprived of sleep for just six hours or a single night may affect the liver&#8217;s ability to produce glucose and process insulin, increasing the risk of metabolic diseases such as fatty liver and Type-2 diabetes, warns a study. Sleep deprivation has been associated with eating more, moving less and having a higher risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}