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10th European Congress of Endocrinology

Plenary Lectures

When and why do we wake up – the endocrine regulation of sleep in humans

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Decreased sleep duration and quality: novel risk factors for obesity and diabetes

Van Cauter Eve

Sleep curtailment has become a common behavior in industrialized countries. Simultaneously, the aging of the population is associated with an increased prevalence of sleep disturbances. These trends for shorter sleep duration and poorer sleep quality have developed over the same time period as the dramatic increase in the prevalence of obesity and diabetes. There is recent evidence to indicate that chronic partial sleep loss and decreased sleep quality may increase the risk of...