Sunday, 10 March 2013

Noisy Planes? - Sleep Deprivation's Impact on Health

Just had the Monthly bulletin from Airport Watch (www.airportwatch.org.uk) with worrying research news.
"Some interesting new work by researchers at the University of Surrey indicates that sleep deprivation causes adverse effects on health due to disruption of gene activity. They were looking at sleep deprivation, rather than sleep disturbance (eg. from aircraft overhead) but the results are worrying, indicating negative effects on the immune system, and circadian rhythms, increasing stress, heart disease, obesity and type II diabetes. More  at http://www.airportwatch.org.uk/?p=488"

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