Long sleep duration linked to an increased risk of metabolic

Participants reporting a daily sleep duration of eight hours or more including naps were 15 percent more likely to have metabolic syndrome. This relationship remained unchanged after full adjustment for potential confounders.

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“The most surprising aspect of our study was that long sleep — and not short sleep — was related to the presence of the metabolic syndrome,” said lead author Teresa Arora, research scientist at the University of Birmingham School of Medicine in Birmingham, U.K.
The study involved 29,310 people in Guangzhou, China, making it the largest study to assess the relationship between sleep duration and the presence of metabolic syndrome. Participants were 50 years of age or older. Total sleep duration was reported by questionnaire.
The authors cautioned that the cross-sectional nature of the study did not allow for a determination of causality. However, Arora pointed out that the secondary analysis of healthy elders makes the results particularly intriguing.
“Long sleep duration is unlikely to be the consequence of ill health in our population sample as we re-ran the analysis in a smaller subset of ‘healthy’ elders, and the findings remained,” she said. “Our follow-up data will allow us to make causal…

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