Posted on 09/15/2024 10:50:58 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Night owls have a higher BMI, larger waists, more hidden body fat and are almost 50% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes (T2D) than those who go to bed earlier, shows new research.
To find out more, Dr. van der Velde and colleagues studied the association between sleep timing, T2D and body fat distribution in more than 5,000 individuals.
The analysis involved participants with a mean age of 56 years and mean BMI of 30 kg/m2.
The participants were then divided into three groups: early chronotype, late chronotype and intermediate chronotype.
The participants were followed-up for a median of 6.6 years, during which 225 were diagnosed with T2D.
The results, which were adjusted for age, sex, education, total body fat and a range of lifestyle factors showed that compared with an intermediate chronotype, participants with a late chronotype had a 46% higher risk of T2D.
This suggests that the increased risk of T2D in late chronotypes can't be explained by lifestyle alone.
"We believe that other mechanisms are also at play," says Dr. van der Velde. "A likely explanation is that the circadian rhythm or body clock in late chronotypes is out of sync with the work and social schedules followed by society. This can lead to circadian misalignment, which we know can lead to metabolic disturbances and ultimately type 2 diabetes."
The team also looked at T2D risk in early chronotypes.
Dr. van der Velde concludes, "People with a late chronotype appear to be at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to those with an intermediate chronotype, possibly because of higher body fat including more visceral fat and liver fat.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Who?
So it’s not the night owl aspect, it’s the eating. Which everyone should know by now.
Anecdotal, I know, but my BIL goes to bed around 8 pm, wakes at 4 am. He’s very very overweight. Not sure if he’s been diagnosed with T2D (yet), but he has to be well on his way. He eats 3 meals a day, 2 desserts, and snacks on whatever he wants, especially sweets. I don’t think his going to bed early is very helpful. He needs to eat less.
That was my first thought. I worked both second and graveyard shift for many years and eating and drinking almost constantly is sometimes the only way to stay awake and alert.
I eat at 4pm. When you don’t work you don’t eat as much.
“The analysis involved participants with a mean age of 56 years and mean BMI of 30 kg/m2.”
Who paid for this one? The scientists (?) took a group of obese people, starts at over 25 BMI and confirmed at 29 BMI, took them with a moderate age of 52, outside of prime body capacity for either sex and when the body is well on it’s way to cutting exercise, and detemined that those they “picked” were a prime suspect for diabetes.
According to the United Sttes Preventative Task Force type 2 diabetes can develop at any age, but it’s more common in people over 40. It’s caused by insulin resistance and is more common in people who are obese.
I guess failure was no option as they set up the test subjects to go right where they wanted it to go. Then produced the results they set up to be determined and adding an additional factor that wasn’t one. Must have been a grant. That’s like putting all the bulls over 2000 pounds into a corral and saying they own nothing but ton weight bulls.
wy69
“The analysis involved participants with a mean age of 56 years and mean BMI of 30 kg/m2.”
Who paid for this one? The scientists (?) took a group of obese people, starts at over 25 BMI and confirmed at 29 BMI, took them with a moderate age of 52, outside of prime body capacity for either sex and when the body is well on it’s way to cutting exercise, and detemined that those they “picked” were a prime suspect for diabetes.
According to the United Sttes Preventative Task Force type 2 diabetes can develop at any age, but it’s more common in people over 40. It’s caused by insulin resistance and is more common in people who are obese.
I guess failure was no option as they set up the test subjects to go right where they wanted it to go. Then produced the results they set up to be determined and adding an additional factor that wasn’t one. Must have been a grant. That’s like putting all the bulls over 2000 pounds into a corral and saying they own nothing but ton weight bulls.
wy69
How do they know it's not people with type 2 diabetes that gradually become night owls?
Yet, people with a 30 BMI who did not get to sleep late didn’t have the problem as much.
So something useful is now known.
I do rotating graveyard. If I don’t get coffee and food, I’m worthless.
Because these people already had the late to bed habit, but none had Type 2 diabetes.
It’s in the text.
My assumption is that my taxes funded this, right?
Nope.
How much will the idiots spend on this?
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