Inadequate Sleep is Linked to Poor Metabolic Health
The symptoms of metabolic syndrome is a cluster of symptoms associated with poor metabolic health, including abdominal obesity, abnormal blood fats (high cholesterol and triglycerides and low HDL) high levels of glucose and high blood pressure.
Other problems include inflammation in the body, free radical damage and abnormalities in blood clotting. Obesity and insulin resistance are epidemic in America, and scientists struggle to determine the causes.
Lack of exercise and poor dietary patterns are a more likely cause, but also between these factors include lack of sleep or poor quality of this.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic were able to determine that poor sleep habits, due to sleep apnea, lack of it, and shift work (morning, afternoon, evening) contribute to suffer metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance.
It also seems a vicious círuclo as inadequate sleep promotes metabolic syndrome while the sleep problems worse.
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