A run of poor sleep can have a potentially profound effect on the internal workings of the human body, say UK researchers.
The activity of hundreds of genes was altered when people's sleep was cut to less than six hours a day for a week.
Writing in the journal PNAS, the researchers said the results helped explain how poor sleep damaged health.
Heart disease, diabetes, obesity and poor brain function have all been linked to substandard sleep.
What missing hours in bed actually does to alter health, however, is unknown.
So researchers at the University of Surrey analysed the blood
of 26 people after they had had plenty of sleep, up to 10 hours each
night for a week, and compared the results with samples after a week of
fewer than six hours a night.
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