It was bound to happen

by SamCogar Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:11 am

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cigarette smoke is tied to a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, both for smokers and the people around them, a new study shows.

And the more secondhand smoke people are exposed to, the greater their risk of type 2 diabetes, according to the paper in Diabetes Care.

The potential risks of diabetes from being exposed to secondhand smoke weren't previously known, said Dr. David Nathan, who heads the Diabetes Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a professor at Harvard Medical School.

Overall, about one in 13 people in the U.S. have this disease, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Forman's group found that women who smoked more than two packs a day had the highest odds of developing diabetes. For every 10,000 women in the study, about 30 of the heavy smokers got diabetes every year, compared to about 25 women who didn't smoke and didn't spend time exposed to other people's cigarette smoker.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40574177/ns/health-mental_health/

HUM, .... so, ...... 1 in 13 have type 2 diabetes.

BUT, .... only ..... 55 in 10,000 women develop diabetes.