Cigarette Smoking Is Associated With Low Glomerular Filtration Rate in Male Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
Response to De Cosmo et al.
- Kazumi Saito, MD12,
- Nobuhiro Yamada, MD, PHD1 and
- Hirohito Sone, MD, PHD, FACP12
- 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tsukuba Institute of Clinical Medicine, Tsukuba, Japan
- 2Department of Nutritional Medicine, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
- Address correspondence to Hirohito Sone, MD, PhD, FACP, Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Medicine, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 112-8610. E-mail: sone.hirohito{at}ocha.ac.jp
We read with interest the article by De Cosmo et al. (1) in the recent issue of Diabetes Care. The authors concluded from their cross-sectional data that cigarette smoking enhanced the risk of renal dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes despite …
