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Article: Clinical Briefs.
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- Internal Medicine Alert
- Article date:
- November 29, 2004
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Clinical Briefs
By Louis Kuritzky, MD
Incidence of Diabetes in Middle-Aged Men is Related to Sleep Disturbances
The consequences of sleep deprivation, as measured in otherwise healthy men, include elevations of sympathetic activity, increased levels of cortisol, and altered glucose metabolism. Although sleep abnormalities such as sleep apnea have been associated with cardiovascular risk, less information is available to describe the association of sleep disturbances and diabetes.
Study subjects comprised male participants in the Malmo Preventive Project (n = 22,444) originally enrolled from 1974 to 1984, and then followed for a mean ...