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Smoking Linked to Diabetes Risk

Smokers are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than nonsmokers, regardless of the number of cigarettes smoked per day or the duration of smoking, with risks persisting even after a person quits.

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At the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting, held September 14–17 in Copenhagen, Denmark, researchers from Kaunas University of Medicine in Lithuania presented results of a study that included 234 cases of confirmed, newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and 468 matched control subjects free of the disease.¹

Researchers gathered information about age, sex, body mass index, family history of diabetes, nutritional status, physical activity, smoking and drinking habits, and other characteristics.

Analysis revealed that, after confounding factors were accounted for, smokers were 2.25 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than people who never smoked. People who had smoked for 20–39 years were 2.5 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than nonsmokers.

References

1. Radzeviciene L, Ostrauskas R: Smoking and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (Abstract). Diabetologia 49 (Suppl. 1):201 , 2006.

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