Aims: Determine association between insomnia and risk of type 2 diabetes (T2DM).

Methods: We conducted a retrospective panel cohort study to examine risk of developing T2DM among prediabetes patients with and without insomnia (physician identified or insomnia medication dispense). Participants with prediabetes (physician identified or by 2 laboratory tests) between 1/1/2007 and 12/31/2015 were followed until 12/31/2016. Patients were determined to have T2DM when two of the following occurred within 2 years: physician-entered outpatient T2DM diagnosis, dispensing of an anti-hyperglycemia agent, A1C ≥6.5%, or fasting plasma glucose >125 mg/dl. One hospital inpatient stay with an associated T2DM diagnosis was also sufficient for T2DM classification.

Results: Our cohort comprised 79,608 persons with prediabetes. Almost 30% (23,370) were classified as having insomnia during the observation period. After adjustment for traditional risk factors, those with insomnia were 28% more likely to develop T2DM than those without. This estimate was essentially unchanged after adjusting for baseline A1C level (Table).

Conclusions: The association of insomnia with increased T2DM risk is similar to that of traditional risk factors such as overweight and nonwhite race. This finding has the potential to be of great value as a modifiable factor in diabetes prevention efforts.
Disclosure

E. LeBlanc: None. N. Smith: None. M. Allison: None. G. Nichols: Research Support; Self; Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Amarin Corporation, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Sanofi. G. Clarke: None.

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