Sleep Disturbance and Onset of Type 2 Diabetes
- Norito Kawakami, MD1,
- Naoyoshi Takatsuka, MD2 and
- Hiroyuki Shimizu, MD2
- 1Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama, Japan
- 2Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
- Address correspondence to Prof. Norito Kawakami, Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan. E-mail: norito{at}md.okayama-u.ac.jp
Sleep disturbance, which is often observed among patients with diabetes (1), is possibly caused by impaired glucose metabolism or physical and psychological discomfort due to the disorder. In addition, a recent prospective study of women has indicated an interesting association between sleep patterns and later-onset type 2 diabetes, with a greater incidence among both short-term (<6 h) and long-term (>8 h) sleepers (2). Disturbance in sleep quality may also affect the later onset of overt diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. We investigated the association between sleep disturbance and the subsequent onset of type 2 diabetes in a group of Japanese …
