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Late nights and disease
By Tina Hesman Saey
October 11th, 2008; Vol.174 #8 (p. 14)
It took only one night of too little sleep to change blood levels of an inflammation-causing protein in women volunteers
Staying up late makes for a swell time, but not in a good way.
A finding appearing in the Sept. 15 Biological Psychiatry offers more evidence that lack of sleep can lead to inflammation and disease.
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