Smoking and Diabetes
Written by docteam Monday, 08 March 2010 09:20
Approximately 30 percent of teenagers show evidence of recent nicotine exposure and the prevalence in adolescent with diabetes does not differ.
Diabetes education needs to address the following issues; (a) Smoking is deleterious to the health of all person at any age, (b) Medical evidence indicates that smoking is and additional risk factor for the appearance and progression of microvascular disease and macrovascular disease, (c) Smoking is also associated with Hypertension, Poorer glycaemic control, Excess general morbidity, Additional risk in pregnancy.
Smoking should be actively discouraged in diabetes and the education process should be commenced in paediatric service.
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