“…Epidemiological studies report consistent relationships between short sleep duration and increased risk for mortality, T2DM, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, coronary heart disease, overweight and obesity, weight gain, hyperglycaemia and impaired glucose tolerance (Anothaisintawee, Reutrakul, Van Cauter, & Thakkinstian, ; Bliwise, Greer, Scullin, & Phillips, ; Cappuccio et al., ; Chao et al., ; Gottlieb et al., , ; Itani, Jike, Watanabe, & Kaneita, ; Knutson et al., ; Patel & Hu, ; Roda et al., ; Sasaki et al., ; Sperry, Scully, Gramzow, & Jorgensen, ; Walatara, Athiththan, Hettiaratchi, & Perera, ; Wu, Zhai, & Zhang, ). Furthermore, poor lifestyle factors, such as smoking (Wang et al., ), lack of physical exercise (Wang et al., ) and alcohol use (Galli et al., ), are more common in short‐sleeping individuals, presumably compounding their risk for developing NCDs.…”