title: Age-, race-, and gender-specific prevalence of diabetes among smokers.
abstract: A cross-sectional study using the US national 2009 Behavioral-Risk-Factor-Surveillance-System data (n=425,846) demonstrates that diabetes prevalence was significantly increased after age 35 in ever smokers, irrespective of gender. Diabetes prevalence was significantly increased in white or Hispanic ever smokers after age 25, and in black ever smokers after age 35.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02908, USA. matthew_jankowich@brown.edu
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jankowich
authors.forename: Gaurav
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Choudhary
authors.forename: Tracey H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Taveira
authors.forename: Wen-Chih
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D044383:Black People; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D044465:White People; D055815:Young Adult