Poor Sleep Threatens Health?
For years, life of sleep has been linked to a wide collection of metabolic conditions, including obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes. But until the recent studies, health researchers did not know much about the effect of inconsistent sleep, including nightly changes in sleep amount and timing. Tianyi Huang is among the writers of the study. Huang is with the Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. In an email to Reuters News Agency, Huang said that more inconsistent sleep times are associated with higher metabolic disease risk. And that is no matter if one has short or long sleep duration or has good or poor sleep quality. The researcher explained that night to night differences in sleep, either duration or timing, are associated with a high risk of having several metabolic problems at the same time. For the study, 2003 patients did home based sleep studies for one week. They used devices known as actigraphs, which measure night time room mate...