Losing just six hours of sleep could increase diabetes risk, study finds

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 09:23 in Health & Medicine

Losing a single night’s sleep may affect the liver’s ability to produce glucose and process insulin, increasing the risk of metabolic diseases such as hepatic steatosis (fatty liver) and type 2 diabetes. The findings of the mouse study are published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology–Endocrinology and Metabolism. The research was chosen […]

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