cancerandobesity.org – Did you know that smoking can also increase a person’s risk for developing type 2 diabetes mellitus than those who do not smoke? This is stated in the article released by JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) in December. Smoking and diabetes are interrelated because smoking can cause diabetes and smoking will worsen one’s diabetes. How to smoking can aggravate the disease diabetes mellitus? Here the short explanation.

Numerous studies have been conducted to find out the relationship between smoking and abnormalities of glucose in the blood. Research Carole Willi, MD which involved 1.2 million participants found that there is a direct link between smoking and increased risk of diabetes. The findings of this study indicate that smoking without the influence of other activities can lead to glucose intolerance or body can no longer accept glucose. Risk of diabetes for those who smoked more than 20 cigarettes per day was 61%, while those categorized as light smokers has only increased risk of diabetes was 29%.

Then why smoking can cause disease diabetes? Smoking can lead to diabetes mellitus due the activity of smoking is probably becomes a cause of insulin resistance and insufficient response to insulin secretion. While insulin resistance is the cause of a person infected with type 2 diabetes. Many people with diabetes and smokers who are looking for alternatives so that they can smoke without putting nicotine in the blood. As a result, the electronic cigarette is the choice. However, according to Professor Xiao-Chuan Liu, professor of chemistry from California State Polytechnic, the electronic cigarette is also not a good choice because it contains nicotine. The only way the patient in order to smokers who have diabetes, is to remove the cigarette from diabetes diet menu. In other words, stop smoking.

Smoking not only increases a person’s risk of type 2 diabetes but also a dangerous complication of diabetes. The most deadly complication of diabetes is high blood pressure which can cause heart disease. Some of the content of cigarettes can damage blood vessel walls which results in high blood pressure and stroke. In addition to smoking can cause inflammation. If inflammation occurs in people with diabetes, this inflammation will be hard to overcome so that people with diabetes are likely to be amputated.

Well you already know the negative effects of smoking on your diabetes? So do not hesitate to devise measures to stop smoking before you are exposed to type 2 diabetes, heart disease before the disease comes along with diabetes, and before your feet should be amputated because of inflammation.