Every cigarette you smoke raises your blood sugar levels, and the combination of smoking and diabetes is a deadly mix. Why? You should know that high blood glucose levels increase the risk of heart attack, stroke and kidney damage.
Determining the concentration of glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is of great importance in assessing the proper control of diabetes. If there is too much blood in the blood, diabetes is not well controlled and the risk of complications increases significantly.
Many years of observations have confirmed that in people with diabetes and smoking cigarettes the level of glycosylated hemoglobin is higher than in patients not burdened with addiction. It has also been proven that nicotine contained in tobacco smoke is responsible for increasing the concentration of glycosylated hemoglobin by up to 30 percent.
Is there a link between smoking and the risk of developing diabetes II?
The observations of scientists from Switzerland confirmed earlier assumptions that there is a link between smoking and the risk of developing type II diabetes. This risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked. Smokers are 44 percent. more at risk than non-smokers.
Who smokes more than 20 cigarettes a day raises the risk to over 60%. The mechanism that explains the relationship between smoking and the development of the disease is not yet known. One hypothesis is that it has to do with an unhygienic lifestyle - little exercise, a fat diet, alcohol abuse.