Smoking Increases Risk of Diabetes, Heart Attacks and Strokes

Thu, 26 Jan 2012
Risk factors are known as such for a reason and include smoking, high blood pressure and having high cholesterol .

An American study of 250,000 adults found that those with any of the above were at greater risk of suffering from; type 2 diabetes, strokes, heart attacks and other manifestations of cardiovascular disease, including death, than those who did not have any of these risk factors.

The more risk factors an individual had as well as the severity of the risk factors placed them at risk of a "cardiovascular event." This trend was common across gender and ethnicity.

An individual was considered to be at no cardiovascular risk should they have met the following criteria: total cholesterol less than 180 milligrams per decilitre of blood; blood pressure less than 120/80 millimetres of mercury (mm Hg) without the assistance of drugs; not diabetic and not a smoker.

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