Diabetes risk linked to how much sleep you're getting

Getting adequate and good sleep is important for your health, including in helping to prevent diabetes. — dpa

Too much sleep, too little sleep, or sleep where you toss and turn, and spend half the night staring goggle-eyed at the ceiling: All of these make you more likely to develop diabetes.

That’s going by an examination of 14 years’ worth of patient data by South Korean doctors, which led them to say that getting less than six hours’ shut-eye, or more than 10, both appear to increase the likelihood of diabetes.