Association of smoking and nicotine dependence with pre-diabetes in young and healthy adults.

DISCUSSION: Smoking is strongly associated with pre-diabetes in young adults with a low burden of smoking exposure. Nicotine dependence could be a potential mechanism of this relationship.
PMID: 25295968 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - October 11, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Aeschbacher S, Schoen T, Clair C, Schillinger P, Schönenberger S, Risch M, Risch L, Conen D Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research