Open AccessRelationship of past, present, and passive smoking with sociodemographic, anthropometric, biochemical, and dysglycemic profiles
Author(s) -
Cuschieri Sarah,
Vassallo Josanne,
Calleja Neville,
Mamo Julian
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of diabetes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.949
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1753-0407
pISSN - 1753-0393
DOI - 10.1111/1753-0407.12844
Subject(s) - medicine , anthropometry , confounding , diabetes mellitus , triglyceride , passive smoking , environmental health , endocrinology , cholesterol
Highlights Former smokers exhibited a significantly higher metabolic risk compared with subjects with other smoking habits. Current smokers with diabetes exhibited significantly higher fasting blood glucose and triglyceride levels. Only former smoking was independently associated with increased dysglycemic risk after adjustment for potential confounders