Individual Differences in Diabetes Risk: Role of Slow WaveSleep

The University of Chicago

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes; Sleep

Treatments: Behavioral: baseline study

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00989378

16026A

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will examine the relationship between the amount of slow wave sleep (deep sleep) and the ability of the body to bring the blood sugar level to a normal range after receiving glucose.

Enrollment: 5 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 20 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy volunteers age 18-20 with a BMI < 27kg/m2 in women and < 28 kg/m2 in men with normal findings on clinical examination, routine laboratory tests and EKG
• only subjects who have regular life styles (no shift work, no travel across time zone during the previous 4 weeks)
• habitual bedtimes between 7.0-8.5 hours/night
• do not take medications will be recruited

Exclusion criteria

• women taking hormonal contraceptive therapy and pregnant women will be excluded
• individuals with a history of psychiatric, endocrine, cardiac or sleep disorders will be excluded
• other exclusion criteria will be: tobacco use, habitual alcohol use of more than 1 drink per day, excessive caffeine intake of more than 300 mg per day

Trial design

5 participants in 1 patient group

control

Description:

normal healthy men and women

Treatment:

Behavioral: baseline study