Sleepless nights put women at diabetes risk

 Ladies, you may want to start getting a good night's sleep as a new study suggests that the worse you sleep, the higher is your type 2 diabetes risk.

Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health's research shows that in women, sleeping problems, like having difficulty sleeping, frequent snoring, sleeping less than six hours a night and sleep apnoea, are associated with an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, with the increased risk ranging from 47 percent for one sleep disorder to more than four times the risk for four different sleeping problems combined.

The study analysed data from 133,353 women without diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer at the start of two studies.