For diabetic patients, completely quitting smoking can significantly reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, but reducing the amount of cigarettes can not expect this effect at all, a study has found.
Samsung Seoul Hospital Family Medicine Professor Shin Dong-wook and Seoul National University Hospital Family Medicine Professor Jung-min Jeong and Professor Yoo Jung-eun joint research team used national health insurance data to study the effects of changes in smoking behavior on cardiovascular disease in 349,193 patients with type 2 diabetes. This was the result of follow-up over a year.
This is the first study to analyze the effect of changes in smoking amount on the risk of cardiovascular disease in diabetic patients.
According to the change in smoking behavior of the diabetic patients to be analyzed, the research team divided into a non-smoking group, a group that reduced the amount of smoking by more than 50%, a group that reduced the amount of smoking by 20-50%, a group that maintained the amount of smoking, and a group that increased the amount of smoking, and looked at the pattern of cardiovascular disease.
The study found that only 16.5% of newly diagnosed diabetes patients quit smoking.
The researchers estimated that diabetics who quit smoking completely had a 20% lower risk of heart attack and stroke than those who continued to smoke.
However, they found that no such effect was observed in the group that cut down on smoking instead of quitting smoking.
In the case of the group who cut their smoking amount by more than half, the risk of stroke remained the same and the risk of myocardial infarction increased by 3% compared to the diabetic group who maintained their smoking amount.
The research team calculated that completely quitting smoking reduced the risk of death by 10% in people with diabetes.
In particular, the research team analyzed that the risk of death due to myocardial infarction and stroke could be reduced by 21% and 34%, respectively.
Therefore, if a smoker is diagnosed with diabetes, the first thing to do is to quit smoking, the researchers advised.
In this study, the health benefits were evident even after 2 years of quitting smoking.
The research team emphasized that no matter how low smoking is, there is no such thing as a ‘safe amount of smoking’ because it can cause harmful effects such as platelet aggregation.
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2023-08-03 01:47:00
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