Posted on January 10, 2008 in Latest News
Smoking and diabetes are highly associated with each other. If one says that smoking leads to diabetes, one can also uphold that diabetic condition gets worsened due to smoking. Find out more about smoking and diabetes.
Smoking which causes heart stroke and attack, mouth and lung cancer and other vascular diseases also leads to diabetes.
A number of studies have examined the association between smoking and incidence of glucose abnormalities. The findings of the study reveal that smoking could be independently associated with glucose intolerance, impaired fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes. Hence, smoking can lead to the development of type 2 diabetes.
Dr Carole Willi and his colleagues of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland conducted a study in which they explored the relationship between smoking and diabetes. For their study they reviewed 25 previous studies which were published between 1992 and 2006. The researchers tracked 1.2 million respondents for up to 30 years.
The Swiss researchers found that smokers had a 44 per cent more chance of developing type 2 diabetes than the non-smokers. The risk was more for heavy smokers. People who smoked 20 or more cigarettes per day had a 61 per cent higher risk for developing diabetes than light smokers.
The study which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirmed that there is a very strong association between smoking and diabetes. In fact, the researchers articulated that smoking leads to increased diabetes incidence.
Why does smoking cause diabetes?
Smoking causes diabetes because it leads to insulin resistance or inadequate compensatory insulin secretion responses. So there is a 50% likelihood of increased risk for diabetes among smokers (both men and women).
Smoking compounds the diabetic problems
Smoking which causes type 2 diabetes can affect the other way round, too. Diabetics who smoke are at more risk of aggravating their health problems. Following are the health risks that get compounded due to smoking among the diabetics:
Thus adding smoking to diabetes reduces the life expectancy and the quality of life of people.
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