Vapeboss – A study titled, "The Association Between E-Cigarette Use and Prediabetes: Results From the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2016–2018," currently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, discusses the relationship between e-cigarette use and prediabetes. The authors of this study, Shyam Biswal, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore, and his team, analyzed data from 600,000 US adults looking for a link between smoking, vaping, and prediabetes.

The collected data showed an increase in blood sugar levels even among e-cigarette users who reported never having smoked conventional cigarettes. However, Biswal highlighted that these findings do not prove that vaping directly increases the likelihood of prediabetes. He added that given smoking is known to be associated with a higher risk of diabetes, "it certainly makes sense" that vaping could also affect the risk of diabetes.

In fact, a 2018 study published in The Lancet Public Health journal indicated that in China, the prevalence of diabetes has increased almost tenfold since the 1980s. Interestingly, other research shows that only about 50% of this increase in diabetes can be attributed to unhealthy eating habits, while the other 50% is due to other lifestyle factors, such as smoking.

For the purpose of this research, the study authors recruited 512,891 adults, 59% of whom were women aged between 30 and 79. Participants were selected over 4 years from ten different regions (five urban and five rural) across China, and then interviewed, with physical measurements and blood samples taken.

The relationship between quitting smoking and mental health

Meanwhile, new findings presented at the 2021 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress examined whether depressed patients who quit smoking after a heart attack experienced improved mental health if they stopped smoking.

The study involved 1,822 acute coronary syndrome patients from the Swiss SPUM-ACS cohort and assessed their smoking status through questionnaires at the time of hospitalization and one year later. The research team analyzed the relationship between smoking and depression after adjusting for age, gender, body mass index, education, marital status, physical activity, alcohol consumption, diabetes, history of cardiovascular disease, cardiac rehabilitation attendance, and high-dose statin use at discharge.

The collected data showed that among the 411 smokers who were depressed upon hospital admission, depressive symptoms tended to improve among those who quit in the following year compared to those who continued to smoke.

Source: Vapingpost