Night Owl are More Likely than Early Birds to Develop Diabetes

Diabetes is a familiar disease in modern medicine, but its various causes can

often be unclear beyond normal risk factors, such as obesity, old age, or low physical

activity. With the onset of diabetes, your risk of heart attack and stroke increases

significantly while problems with kidneys, eyes, feet and nerves become common.

In this article, it is presented that an individuad's “chronotype”, or preferred

timing of sleeping and waking, can have a statistically significant effect on how likely

you are to develop diabetes. According to a study by medical investigators from Brigham

and Women’s Hospital, if you go to bed late and rise later in the morning, you have a

19% higher chance of developing type 2 diabetes. The findings of this study are definitely

alarming for those who tend to be more of a ‘night owl’. For many college students who

adopt this lifestyle, it is perhaps worth reconsidering if this circadian preference is

healthy.


Even in the circumstance of avoiding unhealthy lifestyle behaviors like smoking,

eating heavily processed foods or eating in excess, or rarely exercising, it is clearly not

guaranteed that diabetes can be routinely dodged. The act of habitually going to bed

early and rising earlier in the morning needs to be added to the list of healthy practices

for those who are at an increased risk of developing diabetes.

Benjamin Baker (1)


“Night Owls' More Likely than 'Early Birds' to Develop Diabetes”

Science Daily, 11 Sep. 2023

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230911191004.htm

Comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2023 at 4:34 PM

    Hello Benjamin. This is shocking! I liked how you chose to talk about college students and their sleeping habits. Living on campus, it is hard to avoid the temptation to stay up late hanging out with friends or even just to do homework. This has convinced me to consider adjusting my sleep schedule! Hopefully they expand the research on this, because the study seems to have identified a convincing link between sleep habits and diabetes. Thanks for the information!

    Anya Quaglietta

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2023 at 9:23 AM

    As someone who is in college and tries to get the proper amount of sleep, this was super shocking to read. I never thought about staying up late affecting the circadian rhythm. After your research, what would you consider to be a “night owl” because for some, staying up til 10 is too late where some peers stay up til 3 in the morning on the regular. The term “night owl” can be interpreted in several different ways from person to person.

    Molly McGonagle

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2023 at 10:27 AM

    Oh wow, as someone who is currently trying to create a proper sleep schedule this is a little shocking. I think its so funny how something we think is so simple ca affect us in a huge way. Thank you for choosing to share your knowledge on this topic.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2023 at 8:12 PM

    Hi Benjamin. I'm someone that definitely struggles to keep a consistent sleep scheduling, especially after coming to college, so this information is slightly concerning to me. I've never really thought of sleep as something that could affect my risk of diabetes; I only really saw it as a diet-related issue. This is definitely very infomative informaton!

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    1. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2023 at 8:13 PM

      Sophia Rinaldi ^

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    2. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2023 at 2:25 PM

      Hi Sophia! I completely understand that, I myself find that some nights I'll be heading to bed at 9 p.m. and others in the early morning. I agree that before reading this I had only really thought about the development of diabetes being related back to diet and exercise, so it is interesting to see that timing of sleep could have such an impact.
      Alexis Carson

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 26, 2023 at 1:28 PM

    This is really interesting. You never really get to think about the long term affects of the time at which you sleep, since most people care about how long they sleep and the quality of sleep instead of when it happens. I think many of us, me included, in college tend to sleep a lot later and for lower amounts of time, and this is just another reason for people to start practicing healthy sleeping habits and sleeping at what are considered "normal" hours. Its also interesting to see that sleep can have an impact on a completely different system in the body. Normally, we don't associate sleep and digestion together, but here there seems to be a link between the two.
    -Sid Warrier

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