A recent study has revealed that long and short sleepers are at higher risk for diabetes. The study was presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
Girardin Jean-Louis, who is an associate professor at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center at the Brooklyn Health Disparities Research Center in New York, has said that the findings throw light on the serious impact of sleep in diabetes. He says that the findings showed that both the persons who had long sleep and short sleep had a higher risk of diabetes.
The study was conducted on the basis of data from 29,818 individuals who had completed the 2005 National Health Interview Survey. The data was collected from all the 50 U S states and the participants were n the age group of 18 and 85. Moreover, 85 per cent of the individuals were white, 15 percent black and 56 percent women.
The study says that diabetes was prevalent in 12 percent of blacks and 8 percent in whites. The researchers also found that obese persons had more tendency to sleep more, which only increased the risk of diabetes.
However, the researchers say that more such research is needed to identify the link between sleep and diabetes.
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African tea to control blood sugar
A recent study has revealed that African tea helps in controlling blood sugar levels in the body.
A team of researchers in Denmark has completed a four-month long clinical trial on 23 patients with type 2 diabetes and had said that the trial was more than satisfaction.
The patients who were given African tea, which are produced from the extract of Rauvolfia Vomitoria leaves and the fruit of Citrus aurantium, had shown considerable effect.
Researchers at the Copenhagen university, which had conducted the study says though the African Tea initially did not affect the sugar content of the blood, but had shown gradual progress. In four months, there was a significant increase in glucose tolerance, they said.
It was also seen that there was an increase in the polyunsaturated fatty acids in patients who were administered the African tea. When there is an increase of the polyunsaturated fatty acids, the cell membranes become more permeable, which results in the cells absorbing glucose better from the blood.
A team of researchers in Denmark has completed a four-month long clinical trial on 23 patients with type 2 diabetes and had said that the trial was more than satisfaction.
The patients who were given African tea, which are produced from the extract of Rauvolfia Vomitoria leaves and the fruit of Citrus aurantium, had shown considerable effect.
Researchers at the Copenhagen university, which had conducted the study says though the African Tea initially did not affect the sugar content of the blood, but had shown gradual progress. In four months, there was a significant increase in glucose tolerance, they said.
It was also seen that there was an increase in the polyunsaturated fatty acids in patients who were administered the African tea. When there is an increase of the polyunsaturated fatty acids, the cell membranes become more permeable, which results in the cells absorbing glucose better from the blood.
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