The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.

Chapter 11 Other health problems

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Other health problems: Diabetes

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Diabetic smokers have significantly higher blood pressure and heart rates compared

to nonsmokers with diabetes. This suggests that smoking acts as one of the risk

factors for development of kidney disease through elevated blood pressure.

Reuters, November 3, 1998, from the September 1998 American Journal of

Hypertension

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