Objective Sleep-Wake Characteristics Are Associated With Diabetes Symptoms in Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes.
Stephanie Griggs, Margaret Grey, Garrett I Ash and 3 others
PMID 35446182WHAT IT FOUND
Wrist-measured shorter sleep, lower sleep efficiency, longer time to fall asleep, and more variable sleep were linked to higher diabetes distress and symptoms in 46 young adults with type 1 diabetes.
This does not show sleep caused symptoms.
Key findings
01Shorter total sleep time was associated with higher diabetes emotional distress.
02Poorer sleep efficiency was associated with higher diabetes emotional distress.
03Longer sleep onset latency was associated with higher psychological cognitive symptoms, higher hyperglycemia symptoms, and higher total symptom burden.
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What it does not show
The sample was small, with 46 participants, and came from one recruitment site. Participants were mostly non-Hispanic White (84.8%), female (67.4%), and able to meet monthly expenses (93.5%), so findings may not apply to more diverse young adults with type 1 diabetes. The study measured sleep and symptoms at the same time, so it cannot show whether poor sleep caused symptoms or symptoms disrupted sleep. Some associations were not significant after controlling for sex and BMI, including sleep onset latency and total symptom burden. The diabetes symptom checklist was originally developed for type 2 diabetes and needs further development for all type 1 diabetes symptom domains.
Declared interests
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that improving sleep will reduce diabetes symptoms. The study only measured sleep and symptoms at the same time, so it cannot show that poor sleep caused the symptoms.