Are Night Owls More Likely To Get Diabetes?
After adjusting for lifestyle characteristics, researchers discovered that evening ‘chronotype,’ or staying up late and getting up late, was linked to a 19% higher risk of diabetes. An key conclusion from a recent study is relevant for those who identify as night owls. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding institution of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, discovered that those who slept later and woke up later had less healthy lives and were more likely to develop diabetes. The Annals of Internal Medicine publishes their findings. Researchers have previously discovered that persons with evening chronotypes are more likely to have variable sleep patterns, and that those with more erratic sleep habits are at an increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In order to understand the connection between chronotype and diabetes risk in this study, lifestyle factors were also examined. In addition to self-reported chronotype (the degree to which p...