The Development of a Clinically Relevant Sleep Modification Protocol for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes.

ABSTRACT: Findings from type 2 diabetes research indicate that sleep is both a predictor of onset and a correlate of disease progression. However, the role sleep plays in glucose regulation and daytime functioning in youth with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) has not been systematically investigated. Nonetheless, preliminary findings have supported that various sleep parameters are strongly correlated to health-related and neurobehavioral outcomes in youth with T1DM. This suggests that improving sleep might reduce morbidity. A critical step in developing evidence-based guidelines regarding sleep in diabetes management is to first determine that sleep modification in natural settings is possible (i.e., instructing youth to have a healthy sleep opportunity leads to more total sleep time) and that an i

SUBMITTER: Perfect MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5058458 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature