Melbourne: Researchers at Nihon University have found that men who have less than five hours of sleep a night are at increased risk of obesity and are more likely to have high levels of blood sugar that can cause diabetes.
Yoshitaka Kaneita, Nihon University medical department and associate professor lead author of the study, said that lack of sleep causes a hormone in the blood, which stimulates the appetite, reported The Daily Telegraph.
He said that the hormone "increases the sense of hunger and an appetite for high-calorie foods", which calls on people to pay due attention to how much sleep.
For the study, and his team Kaneita looked 21693 men in 1999, and followed up to see how they are doing seven years later.
They found that men who were not fat, in 1999 were 1.36 times more likely to become obese who slept less than five hours a night, on average, over the next seven years, compared with men who slept more.
They also found that short sleepers were 1.27 times more likely to have high levels of blood sugar. (ANI)
Yoshitaka Kaneita, Nihon University medical department and associate professor lead author of the study, said that lack of sleep causes a hormone in the blood, which stimulates the appetite, reported The Daily Telegraph.
He said that the hormone "increases the sense of hunger and an appetite for high-calorie foods", which calls on people to pay due attention to how much sleep.
For the study, and his team Kaneita looked 21693 men in 1999, and followed up to see how they are doing seven years later.
They found that men who were not fat, in 1999 were 1.36 times more likely to become obese who slept less than five hours a night, on average, over the next seven years, compared with men who slept more.
They also found that short sleepers were 1.27 times more likely to have high levels of blood sugar. (ANI)
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