How dangerous is smoking for people with diabetes?
(Baonghean.vn) - When smoking, nicotine from cigarettes penetrates the blood and changes biochemical, metabolic, pharmacological, and psychological processes.... Also from cigarette smoke, nicotine enters the blood, causing small blood vessels to constrict, slowing the absorption of insulin when injected, leading to difficulty in controlling blood sugar for patients.
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Smoking causes lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, cardiovascular disease (stroke, cerebrovascular accident, myocardial ischemia, etc.) and many other diseases. In diabetic patients, the effects of smoking are even more severe, with mortality and cardiovascular disease rates twice as high as in non-smokers. |
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Cardiologists consider tobacco and diabetes to be two of the factors that lead to cardiovascular disease. When smoking, smokers introduce carbon dioxide from cigarette smoke into the body, which prevents oxygen from combining with red blood cells. To compensate, the body increases red blood cell production, which is one of the factors that increases complications of kidney failure, blindness, foot necrosis, and stroke in diabetic patients. |
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Also from cigarette smoke, nicotine enters the blood causing small blood vessels to constrict, slowing the absorption of insulin when injected, leading to difficulty in controlling blood sugar in patients using insulin. In addition, it also increases the body's insulin resistance. |
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According to statistics, the risk of type 2 diabetes is twice as high in smokers, especially in women. It is also the cause of miscarriage and premature birth in pregnant women with diabetes. |
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Obviously, smoking not only causes serious complications in diabetic patients but also increases the possibility of developing diabetes in smokers. Therefore, diabetic patients need to stay away from smoking. |