Cigarette Smoking Is Associated With Low Glomerular Filtration Rate in Male Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
Response to Saito et al.
- Salvatore De Cosmo, MD1,
- Olga Lamacchia, MD2,
- Loreto Gesualdo, MD3,
- Vincenzo Trischitta, MD14 and
- Mauro Cignarelli, MD2
- 1Unit of Endocrinology, the Scientific Institute Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy
- 2Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
- 3Unit of Nephrology, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
- 4Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
- Address correspondence to Mauro Cignarelli, MD, Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Foggia, via Luigi Pinto, 71100 Foggia, Italy. E-mail: m.cignarelli{at}unifg.it
We thank Saito et al. (1) for their interest and comments regarding our recent article (2). They suggest that the absence of positive correlation between the number of cigarettes smoked per day and severity of …
