Effect of cigarette smoking on microalbuminuria in diabetic patients

ABSTRACT

Urinary microalbumin was determined in fourty patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes [twenty cigarette smokers and twenty non-smokers] and thirty age, weight and sex matched normal controls [fifteen smokers and fifteen non-smokers]. The mean level of microalbumin in the smoker-diabetics was significantly higher than that of the non-smoker diabetics [P < 0.01] and the normal controls [P < 0.01]. In addition the mean level of microalbumin in non-smoker diabetics was significantly higher than that of the normal controls [P < 0.01] while there was non significant increase in smoker compared to non-smoker controls [P > 0.05] . The significance of these changes was discussed