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Health Tip: Kids and Type 2 Diabetes
By LadyLively on September 5, 2017
There’s a direct link between lack of sleep and the incidence of type 2 diabetes in children, recent research indicates.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, a study in the journal Pediatrics found that kids who slept one hour less than recommended per night had several markers for diabetes: higher blood glucose, higher insulin resistance and increased body weight.
Reducing these factors may lessen a person’s chances of developing type 2 diabetes in later life, the researchers found.
Source: HealthDay
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