There is a direct connection between diabetes and sleep
India is becoming the diabetes capital of the world. This is confirmed by the statistics of the disease. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research i.e. ICMR, 7 crore people in India had diabetes in 2019, which will increase to more than 10.1 crore in 2023. Since childhood, we have been hearing that this disease occurs only in the elderly, but today it has emerged in front of the world as a disease which is rapidly affecting children and youth as well. Often when the causes of diabetes are discussed, there is a common belief that eating disorders are the biggest reason, but research says that this is not so. Having diabetes or not has a direct connection with your sleep. That is, how many hours you are sleeping also decides whether you will have diabetes or not.
The study has been published in JAMA Network Open Journal. Data from UK Biobank, one of the world's largest population databases, was used for the research. In which about 1.5 crore genetically mapped people of UK answered the questions. The results that were revealed after 10 years of research are like this – Those who slept every five hours had 16% more risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who slept for eight hours every day. The risk of diabetes among those who could sleep only three to four hours was 41 percent. A surprising thing has also come to light in this research that no matter how much healthy food you eat, if you do not get enough sleep then the risk of diabetes always remains.
What is type 1 and type 2 diabetes
The study says that lack of sleep increases the chances of developing type 2 diabetes. What is this? When we eat food, it gets converted into glucose after digestion. It enters the bloodstream through the intestines. This glucose goes inside the cells from the blood. For glucose to enter the cells from the blood, a hormone is needed which is called insulin. There is an organ inside our stomach – pancreas. Insulin comes out from this pancreas only. If this insulin stops being produced in a person, then the amount of sugar in the blood will increase after eating food. But that sugar will not enter the cells from the blood. This condition is called type 1 diabetes i.e. the production of insulin stops. At the same time, in type 2 diabetes, insulin is not produced in the pancreas as per requirement or the hormone does not work properly.
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This is not the first time…
In 2015, a research was published in Diabetologia which also suggested a connection between lack of sleep and diabetes. Dr. Monica Sharma, a diabetologist at Manipal Hospital, Delhi, says, “Sleep works like a restorative phase in our body, meaning whatever repair work takes place in the body happens at night. When you do not get enough sleep, the repair work gets hampered due to which the amount of insulin resistance increases and as a result your metabolism gets impaired.”
Researchers at the University of Chicago found that after getting only four hours of sleep over three nights, blood levels of fatty acids, which usually peak and then decline overnight, dropped from about 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. Stays up till. As long as fatty acid levels remained high, the ability of insulin to control blood sugar was reduced. Farah Ingle, Director of Internal Medicine at Fortis Hospital Mumbai, says, “Diabetes also impairs sleep cycles. . Just like some diabetic patients have to get up at night to urinate, those suffering from sleep apnea also have problems in sleeping due to which the sugar level increases.
How many diabetic patients in India?
An ICMR study published in the UK medical journal 'Lancet' last year claimed that in 2019, 7 crore people in India had diabetes, which would increase to more than 10.1 crore in 2023. In some developed states the numbers are stabilizing, while in many other states it is increasing at an alarming rate. Lack of sleep is quite common in urban areas. 26.4 cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes were seen in Goa. Puducherry stood second with 26.3 percent cases and Kerala stood third with 25.5 percent. Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh has recorded the lowest number of diabetes (4.8 percent). But about 18 percent are pre-diabetes patients compared to the national average of 15.3 percent. According to the study, the possibility of an explosion of diabetes in the next few years is higher in states like Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Arunachal Pradesh, where its prevalence is low.
trust the doctor's advice
Factors like work schedule, stress, financial pressure and increasing use of social media play a big role in this. But we need to find ways to improve it to reduce the risk of health problems associated with it. According to the World Health Organization, currently 422 million people across the world are suffering from diabetes. In the last 40 years, the number of people affected by it has increased four times. In the year 1980, the percentage of youth above 18 years of age suffering from diabetes was less than 5. But in 2014 this figure had reached 8.5%. Those people who think that they cannot have diabetes, they need to be aware of these figures. In India's metro cities, about 20 percent of people above 40 years of age have diabetes. When you turn 60, this figure will increase to about 40 percent. It is possible to deal with it and live a healthy life. Trust your doctor, follow his advice.
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