| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 11 Other health problems |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| Other health problems: Diabetes |
| globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) |
| In a study from Japan, men who smoked had a 3.27 times higher risk of developing |
| non-insulin-dependent diabetes. |
| American Journal of Epidemiology, January 15, 1997 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| A study of adult onset (Type 2) diabetics in Italy found that smokers had double the |
| risk of premature death (1.3% annual death rate) compared to nonsmoking adult |
| onset diabetics (0.6% annual death rate). |
| San Antonio Express, November 6, 1997 from American Society of Nephrology |
| annual meeting |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| Smoking appears to increase the risk for developing diabetes, and is also an |
| important risk factor for insulin resistance. |
| Cigarettes, pp. 138-139 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| In a study from the Harvard School of Public Health, the relative risk of diabetes was |
| 1.42 among women who smoked 25 or more cigarettes per day compared with |
| nonsmokers. In another study of middle-aged Dutch men, the relative risk of diabetes |
| was 3.3 times the risk in nonsmokers. |
| American Journal of Public Health, February 1993, p. 211 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| Young diabetics who smoke are two to three times more likely to develop kidney |
| damage and renal failure than nonsmoking diabetics. |
| JAMA, February 6, 1991, p. 614 |
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