Smoking-related diabetes a modifiable risk factor

[Northerner]

Cigarette smoking is a modifiable risk factor for impaired insulin secretion in Japanese men, show study findings.

In a study of 1199 men without diabetes, impaired insulin secretion, or insulin resistance at baseline, the risk for impaired insulin secretion was increased two-fold in current smokers compared with never smokers, report Akiko Morimoto (Osaka University, Japan) and colleagues.

However, ex-smokers were not at an increased risk for impaired insulin secretion, suggesting that cigarette smoking is a modifiable risk factor that could be targeted for the prevention of Type 2 diabetes.

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20121123/Smoking-related-diabetes-a-modifiable-risk-factor.aspx

 

[trophywench]

And I never realised it was a risk factor for getting it in the first place.

Still as I see it, being brought up in West Brom amongst foundries and the like, before the Clean Air act - smog being frequent from October to March and when you went out your mother making you wear one of dads hankies over your mouth and nose with a scratchy woollen scarf tied round it to keep it in place (similar to when you had a tooth out but the former only in winter) if you could survive that to adulthood, you could probably survive a lot of other stuff too.