Study: Poor sleep raises death risk in diabetes

Medical guidance consistently recommends that healthy adults should sleep for at least seven hours each night. [Courtesy]

Researchers who spent nine years analysing sleep patterns and long-term health outcomes now warn that inadequate sleep, especially when combined with type 2 diabetes, significantly increases the risk of early death.

Medical guidance consistently recommends that healthy adults should sleep for at least seven hours each night, yet many people fail to meet this benchmark.