Gendall P, Hoek J, Gendall K
People with diabetes who also smoke are more likely to: experience kidney and heart disease have poor circulation leading to infections, ulcers, blood clots, or amputations develop eye diseases, such as retinopathy, that can lead to vision loss experience nerve damage that leads to pain, tingling, and mobility impairments Many of the combined health effects of smoking and diabetes make it more difficult to make healthful lifestyle choices
September 10, 2014 "When Worlds Collide"
Long-term ingestion of the drug can lead to a "potential increased cancer risk in humans, but there is no immediate risk to patients taking this medication." For this reason, the FDA said on Friday that patients taking the recalled drug "should continue taking their current medicine until their pharmacist provides a replacement or their doctor prescribes a different treatment." "The health benefits of stopping smoking outweigh the cancer risk from the nitrosamine impurity in varenicline," the FDA added