Current smokers and people regularly exposed to second-hand smoke have a significantly increased risk for type 2 diabetes
compared with people who have never smoked, according to a new
meta-analysis conducted by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and National University of Singapore.
The researchers estimated that 11.7% of cases of type 2 diabetes in men
and 2.4% in women (about 27.8 million cases in total worldwide) may be
attributable to active smoking. They also found that risk decreases as
time elapses after smokers quit.“Cigarette smoking should be considered as a key modifiable risk factor for diabetes. Public health efforts to reduce smoking will have a substantial impact on the global burden of type 2 diabetes,” said co-author Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology. READ MORE
SOURCE; harvard gazette
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