Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2011 Sep;93(3):e101-5. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2011.05.029. Epub 2011 Jun 16.

Age-, race-, and gender-specific prevalence of diabetes among smokers.

Jankowich M¹, Choudhary G, Taveira TH, Wu WC.

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1: Department of Medicine at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02908, USA. matthew_jankowich@brown.edu

Abstract

A cross-sectional study using the US national 2009 Behavioral-Risk-Factor-Surveillance-System data (n=425,846) demonstrates that diabetes prevalence was significantly increased after age 35 in ever smokers, irrespective of gender. Diabetes prevalence was significantly increased in white or Hispanic ever smokers after age 25, and in black ever smokers after age 35.

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