Opened my briefcase at work and forgot why I opened it. #AgingAintForChumps
“Wow, I guess I was a classic case of a type-2 diabetic, prior to being diagnosed with diabetes I was also diagnosed with sleep apnea. Fittingly, after I got my glucose level consistently under control, I haven’t suffered with sleep apnea.”
[Huffington Post]Fit and healthy 20-somethings are not the typical face of type 2 diabetes. But the common condition sleep apnea, which stops a person from breathing for brief periods while they sleep, could increase a healthy young man’s risk for type 2 diabetes, a small study published in Diabetes Care finds.
Previous research has found a link between sleep apnea and type 2 diabetes, but not in healthy men presenting no other diabetic risk factors. Read the entire Huffington Post article.
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