Smoking May Cause Diabetes
A study by South Korean scientists suggests that smokers could be putting themselves at higher risk of getting metabolic diseases like diabetes.
A team of researchers led by Jee Sun-ha, a professor at Yonsei University’s graduate school of public health, said that the blood level of adiponectin was found to be lower among men who smoke.
Adiponectin is a protein hormone that is secreted by fat cells and modulates how the body processes sugar and fatty substances in blood. It also plays a role in the suppression of metabolic derangements that may result in type-2 diabetes, obesity, insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Jee’s team tested 2,500 male adults from the ages of 24 and 87 who received medical checkups at Seoul hospitals. The researchers divided the patients into two groups, a 1,031-man unit of smokers and another unit of 1,469 non-smokers.
The blood level of adiponectin averaged 6.6 micrograms per milli-liter (ug/ml) among smokers, compared to 7.3 ug/ml for non-smokers.
Even when eliminating other variables that are known to be related to adiponectin levels, such as age, level of alcohol consumption and body mass index, the study still came to the conclusion that low adiponectin levels could be connected with smoking.
The researchers pointed out that the adiponectin levels were consistently low among smokers, even those with low insulin resistance.
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