{"id":20759,"date":"2017-06-25T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=20759"},"modified":"2017-06-23T13:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T19:01:53","slug":"sleeping-less-than-five-hours-per-night-increases-risk-of-developing-type-2-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/sleeping-less-than-five-hours-per-night-increases-risk-of-developing-type-2-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Less Than Five Hours per Night Increases Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/domir-menos-5-6-horas-diabetes.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"130\" width=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/domir-menos-5-6-horas-diabetes.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/domir-menos-5-6-horas-diabetes-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/domir-menos-5-6-horas-diabetes-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>A research conducted at the National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico has found that people who sleep less than five hours per night for a year are three times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes mellitus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>What has been found in the research is that people who sleep fewer hours have something called increased insulin resistance<\/em>,&#8221; said psychiatrist and researcher Alejandro Jimenez Genchi.<\/p>\n<p>The coordinator of the Sleep Clinic of the National Institute of Psychiatry explained that the <strong>cells of people with insomnia respond less to the hormone insulin, a situation that alters the regulation of glucose<\/strong>. <strong>Not having an adequate regulation increases the risk of people who have already problems (like prediabetes) or who have already diabetes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He also explained that <strong>certain hormones play an important role in the appetite or satiety of people, and sleeping less than five or six hours deregulate such hormones<\/strong>, leading to &#8220;more appetite, less satiety and increase food consumption and probably ingest more glucose \u2013more sugar&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez Genchi indicated that the <strong>sleep disorder also causes three times more chances of developing hypertension and a 45 percent chance of having a myocardial infarction<\/strong>. &#8220;<em>It also doubles the risk of developing psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety disorders and also diseases related to the metabolic syndrome such as obesity<\/em>,&#8221; the specialist said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the <strong>three main symptoms of insomnia are problems to start sleeping, difficulty staying asleep and constantly wake up: more than three times a week for three months<\/strong>; a situation that affects 40 percent of the Mexican population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>That is why it is so important to ensure more than six hours of sleep. Even it is an obvious challenge for a patient with insomnia<\/em>,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><em>Notimex<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research conducted at the National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico has found that people who sleep less than five hours per night for a year are three times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes mellitus. &#8220;What has been found in the research is that people who sleep fewer hours have something called increased &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-20759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-casalud","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20800,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions\/20800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}