Relation of active, passive, and quitting smoking with incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cigarette smoking remains the leading avoidable cause of disease burden worldwide, and observational studies have linked various smoking behaviours (active smoking, passive smoking, and smoking cessation) with risk of type 2 diabetes. We did a meta-analysis of prospective studies to investigate the associations between various smoking behaviours and diabetes risk.

Methods

We systematically searched MEDLINE (up to May 3, 2015) and Embase (up to April 16, 2014) for reports of prospective studies, using search terms related to smoking, diabetes mellitus, and studies with a prospective design. We supplemented this strategy with manual searches of the reference lists of retrieved publications and relevant reviews. We included prospective studies that reported risk of t

SUBMITTER: Pan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4656094 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature