Hu said, “Public health efforts to reduce smoking will have a substantial impact on the global burden of type 2 diabetes”.
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While the evidence pointing to smoking as a risk factor for cancer, respiratory diseases, and cardiovascular disease is overwhelming, corroboration of a link between smoking and type 2 diabetes risk has been slower to build. Pooling 10 studies with 1,086,608 participants it was also discovered that the risk for diabetes fell as participants quit for longer periods of time.
Glasgow scientist Professor Naveed Sattar led calls for public health warnings to include diabetes among the illnesses linked to smoking.
A wide-ranging analysis of 88 studies covering almost six million people had found that both smokers and people breathing in second-hand smoke could see an increased risk of developing the debilitating condition.
Secondhand smoke can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes for individuals who are regularly exposed on secondhand smoke, a new research conducted by an worldwide team of researchers has reported.
Compared with never smoking, current smoking increased the risk for the disease by 37 percent, according to the report published September 18 in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
The findings were startling as smoking as a factor for increased risk of type 2 diabetes was irrefutable.
Moreover, one study observed that male new quitters who gained less than 3 kg weight during the first 5 years after cessation were more likely to develop diabetes on average, whereas those who gained 3 kg or more did not, supporting the view that this weight gain in itself is not to blame. Researchers found that among current smokers, the risk was as high as 57 per cent based on the amount of smoking. Once a decade had passed, former smokers’ increased risk for type 2 diabetes dropped to 11 percent, the study found.
A study into smoking and the association with type 2 diabetes has concluded that smokers have 1.4 times greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared with those who do not smoke.
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“Despite the global efforts to combat the tobacco epidemic, cigarette use remains the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide“, An Pan, the first author of the study and professor of epidemiology at School of Public Health, said in a statement.
