Obesity and Diabetes

Research results from University of Pittsburgh, Medical Department update knowledge of obesity and diabetes

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, June 16th, 2008

"Short and long sleep duration have been linked to various risk factors for cardiovascular disease. In the present study, we evaluated the relationship between sleep duration and presence of the metabolic syndrome, which is a cluster of physiologically interrelated risk factors for cardiometabolic disease," scientists writing in the journal Sleep report.

"Cross-sectional community-based cohort study. One thousand two hundred fourteen participants from the Adult Health and Behavior Project registry (aged 30 to 54 years). Participants were divided into 4 groups based upon their reported sleep duration. The metabolic syndrome was defined according to the American...

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