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Smoking Could Raise Diabetes Risk
According to a new study, smoking could increase the odds of developing diabetes.
Researchers’ have found another poor health outcome associated with cigarettes, supporting current Surgeon General's warnings against cigarette smoking. Reporting in the current issue of Diabetes Care, a team from Wake Forest University examined the relationship between smoking and diabetes among people taking part in a major national trial called the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study (IRAS). They compared the five-year incidence of diabetes of smokers and people who had never smoked.
Twenty-five percent of the smokers who didn't have diabetes at the start of the study developed the disease after five years, compared with 14 percent of people who'd never smoked. When the researchers adjusted for other diabetes risk factors, they found that smokers exhibited a significant increased risk of developing diabetes compared to people who had never smoked. Smoking and diabetes have long been associated with heart disease and share many of the same dire consequences.
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