THEThe risk of diabetes increases in those who smoke. Recent studies have quantified it at +37-44%. a smoker’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Not only. If smoking is not good for those who are ‘healthy’, it is even worse for those with a chronic disease such as diabetes. Here because the diabetologists of SIDItalian Diabetology Society, raise the alarm and suggest putting stopping smoking at the top of your list of goals for the new year.
The correlation with smoking
«It is an absolute priority to intercept smokers and help them quit to limit the risk of developing metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance and full-blown diabetes. Even more pressing effort for people with diabetes who continue to smoke and which, due to cigarette addiction, they risk seeing worsen your condition with an increase in complications. Smoking increases avoidable all-cause mortality by 58% in people with type 1 (64%) and type 2 (39%) diabetes,” says the Professor Angelo AvogaroPresident of SID.
The search results
Those who smoke, therefore, are more at risk of diabetes. This is because in the brain Nicotine binds to receptors that control the capacity of pancreas to produce insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar. The consequence is that the amount of hormone released by the organ is reduced. This was revealed by a study conducted on mice at the Mount Sinai School of Medicinepublished in the prestigious magazine Naturewhich for the first time clarified the mechanisms that link smoking to a greater risk of developing diabetes.
Nicotine and insulin: what relationship
«The research published on Nature in 2019 he clarified that nicotine activates nicotinic neurons in the brain, which also regulate the release of glucagon and insulin from the pancreas, resulting in the release of higher levels of glucose into the blood. But the risk could be even greater: al Congress of European Diabetes Association which took place in Hamburg, the results of a research conducted at the Karolinska Institutet in Swedenin which not only smoking increases the risk of developing diabetes by 73%.but what smokers have a particular metabolic profile, a sort of ‘signature’ that works in synergy with genetic risk factors. In simple words, subjects with a metabolic profile and genetic risk of insulin resistance would have a risk of diabetes more than 2 times greater», warns Professor Avogaro.
A formula to quantify risk
The effects of cigarette smoking on diabetes are possible calculate with a formula. Enough multiply the number of cigarettes smoked per day by the number of years you have smoked And divide by 20. For example, someone who smokes 40 cigarettes a day for 35 years will have a 70% risk of developing diabetes. While those who smoke 10 cigarettes a day for 25 years will have a risk of 12.5%. Finally, it should be underlined that smokers, precisely because of their addiction, face ashorter life expectancycalculated between 8 and 10 years younger. This is why it is good to put quitting smoking at the top of the list of good resolutions for 2024.
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