Friday 01 Aug/2025 – 04:10 AM
An expanded scientific study conducted by two university Beijing Military medicine, that sleep disturbances may be linked to an increase in the risk of developing a wide range of diseases, which numbered 172, including neurological, renal, psychological and digestive diseases, according to what was published in the New York Post.
Sleep disturbances may raise the risk of developing 172 different disease
The study relied on a sleep data analysis of 88,461 people from the UK’s biological bank database, with an average age of 62 years, and the researchers focused on several sleep quality factors, such as the duration of sleep, the timing of its beginning, its regularity, and its retail.
The team found that 20% of the risk of developing 92 disease, including Parkinson’s disease and acute kidney failure, can be linked to sleep disorders. The traits of bad sleep were also associated with increasing the risk of developing 122 other disease by up to 1.5 times, including type 2 diabetes, some types of fractures, urine incontinence, and respiratory problems.
The researchers pointed out that chronic infections may be one of the vital mechanisms that link sleep disorders and health deterioration.
Diseases associated with sleep disorders
Among the diseases that showed a strong sleep relationship:
Cirrhosis
Gangrene
Hyper thyroid gland
Obesity and pulmonary heart disease
The weakness associated with age
Future studies under planning
In the coming stages, the research team seeks to conduct more studies to measure the direct causal relationship between sleep quality and chronic diseases, and to determine the effectiveness of improving the sleep pattern as a way to prevent these cases, and the study was funded by the Chinese National Research Program, the National Corporation for Natural Sciences, and the Health Development Research Fund for the Municipality of Beijing.
