Diabetes Risk due to Smoking

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    risk of developing  Type 2 diabetes

     as compared to non smokers

 2 People having 20 cigarettes a day had

  61% higher risk of developing  Type 2

Diabetes 

  Less than 20 cigarettes a day had  29%

  higher risk of developing Type 2       diabetes.

3 A higher dose of insulin was needed to

    Achieve the same metabolic control

    In smokers as compared to non smokers

             This risk arises due to the  insulin

  Insensitivity resulting from nicotine

   One of the active chemicals in cigarettes.

4 Smokers have higher abdominal obesity

Than non smokers ,which is a key risk factor

For diabetes.

  Ref  Medicina (Kaunas)  2019 Sep :55(9):546

          Radia  Marium Modhumi Khan

           Zoey Jia Yu Chua 

           Jia Chi Tan

            Yingying Yang 

            Zehun Lio and Yan Zhao

         

       

    

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