The length of sleep has nothing to do with the incidence of diabetes

 Getting enough sleep is an important aspect of a healthy lifestyle. Recent studies have found a link between sleep time and the onset of diabetes. The study shows that the causal relationship between sleep and diabetes or sleep time may be the result of other factors that cause diabetes. There are currently no randomized controlled studies evaluating the effects of sleep on diabetes, and such studies are also difficult to carry out.

　　 In order to provide additional evidence, Professor Mary Schooling of CUNY SPH and his colleagues used genetics to predict sleep time to assess the risk of diabetes. Through a method called Mendelian randomization, the researchers focused on the genes related to sleep time in the genome of the study participants, and then compared this information with the participants’ diabetes prevalence. The relevant research results were published in "Preventative Medicine" on.

　　Researchers found that there is no obvious evidence that longer sleep time can reduce the risk of diabetes. But Schooling said they cannot rule out the different effects of sleep on diabetes in men and women. "Sleep is important in many aspects, but protecting the human body from diabetes may not be one of them."