Accepted Article SLEep among Diabetic patients and their GlycaEmic control (SLEDGE) – a multicentre observational study Running title: Sleep & glycaemic control Jeffrey Pradeep RAJ 1 , Samuel George HANSDAK 2 , Dukhabandhu NAIK 3 , N.V. MAHENDRI 4 ,Nihal THOMAS 3 . Affliation: 1. Church of South India Hospital, Erode & Dept. of Pharmacology, St. Johns Medical College, Bangalore, India-560034 2. Department of General Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India – 632004 3. Department of Endocrinology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India – 632004 4. Department of Dietetics & Nutrition, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India – 632004 Address for Correspondence: Dr. Dukhabandhu Naik -MD, DM (Endo) Associate Professor Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and metabolism Christian Medical College, Vellore -632004. India Tel: +91 4162282528 Fax:+91 416 4205844 Email: drnaik2000@gmail.com This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/jdb.12825