According to Sleep deprivation can damage DNA
According to Sleep deprivation can damage DNA
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Sleep deprivation poses a great impact on our body. As per the study, sleep deprivation can affect our genes and lead to the damage of our DNA. In the study on 49 healthy full-time doctors who had their blood analysed at different time points and on-call doctors who were required to work overnight on-site were found to have lower DNA repair gene expression and more DNA breaks than participants who did not work overnight.

In these overnight on-site call doctors, DNA repair gene expression decreased and DNA breaks increased after sleep deprivation. Damaged DNA increased after only one night of sleep deprivation. As per the research, this damage may help explain the increased risk for cancer and cardiovascular, metabolic diseases as well as neurodegenerative disorders that are usually linked with sleep deprivation.

Siu-Wai Choi, lead researcher of the study said that although this work is very preliminary, the result indicated that even a single night of sleep deprivation can trigger events that may lead to chronic disease.

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