If you are one of those people who finds it difficult to sleeping late and get up in the morning, then this is bad news for you.
In fact, it can be detrimental to mental health for those who sleep late.
This claim has emerged in a new medical study.
Earlier, several research reports said that people who woke up in the morning had a lower risk of depression, but those reports were observable and the cause and effect could not be proved.
But the new study provides more comprehensive evidence that early sleep and waking up at night protect against depression.
The study, published in the medical journal JAMA Psychiatry, found a link between sleeping late at night or waking up early in the morning and depression.
Research has shown that going to bed early or going to bed at night are inherited habits that are transmitted to people during the mother’s womb.
In fact, more than 340 types of genes linked to people’s sleep-related body clocks have been discovered so far.
For this study, researchers used 2 genetic bases of more than 800,000 people to conduct a trial to control the body clock and the risk of depression.
They had not only genetic data but also data for the diagnosis of severe depression and details of people’s waking and sleeping times, which people told themselves and obtained from sleep laboratory records.
This helped experts to examine a person’s sleep patterns, for example, a person who goes to bed at 10 o’clock in the morning wakes up in the morning, the middle part of his sleep is 2 o’clock in the morning.
Researchers have found that people with genetic predisposition to wake up early in the morning have a 23% lower risk of developing severe depression.
The researchers said that the data suggests that there are certain trends in society, such as the use of smartphones and other blue light devices at night, leading to late beds and possibly affecting the level of depression. Are compiled.
Earlier, in May 2021, a study compared the sleep habits and illnesses of 172 middle-aged people.
Research has shown that sleeping and waking routines are the most important for humans.
Six out of 10 people in the study were accustomed to waking up in the morning, while 13 percent went to bed at night.
The others were somewhere between the two.
All three groups in the study had similar weights, but those who stayed up late were more likely to burn more calories at night and were more likely to have unhealthy habits such as smoking and not exercising.
All of these factors increase the risk of medical problems.
The study found that 30 percent of those who woke up in the morning had heart disease, but the rate was about 55 percent of those who stayed up late.
Similarly, the risk of type 2 diabetes was found in 9% of those who went to bed early and 37% of those who stayed up late.
The results of the third group were similar to those of the early morning group.
“Overall, people who stay up late have a higher risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes than others,” he said.