Tobacco Use, Insulin Resistance, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

Rachel J KeithMahmoud Al RifaiChristopher CarrubaNatasha De JarnettJohn W McEvoyAruni BhatnagarMichael J BlahaAndrew P Defilippis

Published in: PloS one (2016)

In a contemporary multi-ethnic cohort, there was no independent association between tobacco use and IR or incident type 2 diabetes. The role smoking plays in causing diabetes may be more complicated than originally thought and warrants more in-depth large contemporary multi-ethnic studies.

Keyphrases

type diabetes
insulin resistance
cardiovascular disease
glycemic control
metabolic syndrome
adipose tissue
optical coherence tomography
high fat diet induced
case control