Diabetes News: Links Nicotine Pre-Diabetes
Smoking increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, as nicotine is insulin resistance, U.S. researchers say.
Insulin resistance is called “diabetes whose blood sugar has increased, but not to the extent of diabetes, said researchers for the hormonal system of the company, 91st annual meeting in Washington.
Pre-diabetes, the researchers said, leads to a much higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
The researchers – Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles and west of the University of Medical Sciences in Pomona, California – also indicated that they were partially reversed these harmful effects of nicotine in mice the nicotinic antagonist mecamylamine.
Theodore Friedman, chief of endocrinology at Charles Drew said insulin resistance explains why smokers have a high cardiovascular mortality, even though smoking causes weight loss, while in other cases, protects against heart disease.
“Our results suggest that reducing insulin resistance in May to reduce cardiovascular disease among smokers,” Friedman said in his speech. “We hope that in the future are drugs that specifically block the effects of nicotine on insulin resistance.”
If smoking is resistant to insulin, their blood glucose levels higher than normal, but not in diabetes.
The National Institutes of Health funded this study.