Long Daytime Naps Are Warning Sign For Type-2 Diabetes

Napping in the day

Japanese researchers have now found that prolonged periods of naps extending more than one hour a day could possibly be an indication sign for type 2 diabetes. This link was found when they investigated studies based on observation which involved much more than 300,000 people.

Experts from the UK said that the people having illnesses for a longer time and those left with diabetes undiagnosed often had a feeling of fatigue in course of the day. However, they also said that they had no solid proof that naps created or amplified the risk of having diabetes.

This enormous study was conducted by researchers at the University of Tokyo, and is being presented in Munich at a conference of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. In the research it was found the connection concerning long naps during the day of greater than an hour and an increased risk by 45 per cent of diabetes, as compared to no nap time during the day. However there were no evidences seen in cases with naps for a period of 40 minutes or less.

Sleeping patterns

The researchers believed that lengthy naps could be an outcome of having disturbed sleep during the night, that actually triggered by sleep apnoea. This kind of sleeping disorder could escalate the risk of heart problems, cardiovascular issues and other metabolic conditions, together with type 2 diabetes.

Because of work schedule or patterns of social life, people are deprived of sleep, which could result in increased desire for food, which could amplify the threat of type 2 diabetes. Then again it was also likely that people are not very healthy or are in the early stages of diabetes were more prone to take naps during the day for a longer period. On the contrary, the authors believe that naps of a shorter span were expected to increase vigilance and normal motor movements.

Early warning sign

From the University of Glasgow, Naveed Satter a professor of metabolic medicine said that there was currently a lot of proof of some kind of connection between disturbances during sleep and diabetes. It is possible that factors of risk which bring about diabetes also are the root for napping. This could take account of a tad high level of sugar, meaning that napping could be a primary cautionary indication of diabetes said Satter. However appropriate tests were required to figure out whether or not sleeping patterns did make any change to outcomes of real heath.

At the University of Oxford, Dr Benjamin Cairns, from the cancer epidemiology division commented that the results of the tests should be considered with lot of concern and with avoidance of risks. In a broad spectrum, Dr Cairns says that it is not really possible to come down to a final result about not only the causes but also the effects simply established on the basis of studies conducted on observation solely, because as a matter of fact they cannot forget about other explanatory substitutes for their results and finding in the trial.