INTRODUCTION Quitting smoking is a critical step toward diabetes control. It is not known whether smoking rates in adults with diabetes are similar to rates among adults who do not have the disease or whether people with diabetes have increased motivation to quit. We examined prevalence trends of current smoking and quit attempts among US adults with and without diagnosed diabetes from 2001 thr...

EPIDEMIOLOGY—The importance of diabetes as a cause of mortality and morbidity is well known. The number of patients increases alongside aging of the population, raising the prevalence of obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. As a disease that is strongly associated with both microand macrovascular complications, diabetes results in organ and tissue damage. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes up to...

Diabetes & Primary Care Vol 13 No 3 2011 Fasting in Ramadan (Sawm) is one of the five pillars of Islam. The other pillars are: Shahada (the declaration of faith), Salah (five daily prayers), Zakat (annual alms tax) and Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). The Muslim population in the UK is estimated close to 1.6 million people, constituting 2.7% of the overall population (Office for National Statistics,...

OBJECTIVE To test if knowledge of type 2 diabetes genetic variants improves disease prediction. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We tested 40 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with diabetes in 3,471 Framingham Offspring Study subjects followed over 34 years using pooled logistic regression models stratified by age (<50 years, diabetes cases = 144; or ≥50 years, diabetes cases = 302...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a serious public health burden, accounting for substantial morbidity, disability, mortality, and health care cost; in addition to impaired physical health. Patients with diabetes frequently have comorbid affective illness; they are twice likely to be depressed as people without chronic diseases. Depression may be a risk factor for poor metabolic control in diabe...

OBJECTIVE Although several studies have examined the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality in the general population, few have investigated this relationship among people with diabetes. This study sought to determine how risk of mortality associated with measures of SES among adults with diagnosed diabetes is mitigated by association with demographics, comorbidities, diab...