If you are a diabetic with a disrupted sleep pattern you might need more time to heal skin wounds finds a study. These results confirm that sleep plays an especially important role in wound healing among obese mice with Type 2 diabetes. For the experiment scientists used obese mice with features of Type 2 diabetes and compared them to healthy mice of normal weight. While deeply anesthetized both groups of mice got a small surgical wound on the skin of their backs. The scientists analyzed how long it took the wound to heal under two scenarios: a normal sleep schedule
