HPE 158 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sleep Deprivation, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
3 Mar 2019
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Several large-scale studies from all over the world have reported a link between short sleep times and obesity, as well as heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke. "i think it tells us that sleep deprivation is not a challenge for which biology has wired us. There"s no other mammal that sleep deprives itself like human. So it is read by our biology as a stress," van. "i would say that sleep deprivation may be a new risk factor for diabetes," van. "not just aging, not just being overweight or obese, not just having a family history of diabetes, which are the three major risk factors. And type 2 diabetes is now occurring in children, in adolescents, and, you know, adolescents and children are also being sleep deprived. High schoolers are amongst the most sleep deprived individuals in our society, because they have an enormous sleep need - nine to ten hours.
