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 | | The effects of chronic cigarette smoking on insulin sensitivity were examined in 28 smokers and 12 non-smokers with Type 2 diabetes, matched as closely as possible with regard to sex, age, BMI, waist-hip ratio, alcohol consumption, physical activity level, glycometabolic control, diabetes duration and treatment. |
 | | Although this is a cross-sectional and not a longitudinal study, evidence for a causal relationship between cigarette smoking and insulin resistance is suggested in Fig. |
 | | Since the increased hyperinsulinaemia in smoking Type 2 diabetic patients was associated, as might be expected, with higher plasma triglycerides, lower HDL cholesterol and slightly higher systolic blood pressures than in their non-smoking counterparts, it could well be that cigarette smoking is an environmental factor which aggravates an underlying metabolic syndrome. |
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