Why the study?
Does smoking cessation and subsequent weight change alter the risk of type 2 diabetes and mortality compared to current smoking in US adults?
Does smoking cessation and subsequent weight change alter the risk of type 2 diabetes and mortality compared to current smoking in US adults?
Smoking cessation reduces cardiovascular and all-cause mortality regardless of post-cessation weight gain, despite a temporary weight-dependent increase in type 2 diabetes risk.
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Supports cessation counseling for mortality benefit despite diabetes risk; leaves open causal weight effects in observational data.
Hu et al. (2018) studied this question.
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