Smoking in patients with diabetes may increase the probability of complications such as lung infections and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular pathologies.
Diabetic patients with disorders of glucose metabolism in the body, very easy to induce a variety of infections, and after smoking the respiratory defense function decreases, which will further increase the risk of respiratory tract infections. And diabetic patients are easy to complicate atherosclerosis, and smoking will accelerate the speed of atherosclerosis, accelerate the formation of plaque in the arterial wall, very easy to induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular lesions.
In addition, smoking will also increase the risk of lung cancer, bladder cancer and other malignant tumors. Therefore, patients with diabetes are not recommended to smoke, which will have serious adverse effects on health, and should also be standardized treatment under the guidance of a doctor.