(Dave Yasvnski/ Healthing) — People who struggle to get a good night’s sleep are more likely to suffer an early death, particularly if they have diabetes, according to a new study.
The research, which appears in the Journal of Sleep Research, found that people with diabetes who have trouble falling or staying asleep were 87 per cent more likely to die of any cause during the course of the study’s nine-year follow-up period. This group was 12 per cent more likely to die over the same period than those with diabetes but no difficulty sleeping.
“If you don’t have diabetes, your sleep disturbances are still associated with an increased risk of dying, but it’s higher for those with diabetes,” said Kristen Knutson, corresponding study author and an associate professor of neurology (sleep medicine) and preventive medicine (epidemiology) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. (…)