Is it smoking or related lifestyle variables that increase metabolic syndrome risk?

BMC Medicine

Michel de Lorgeril¹  Patricia Salen¹  Mikael Rabaeus² 

[1] Laboratoire Cœur et Nutrition, TIMC-IMAG CNRS 5525, Université Joseph Fourier, Faculté de Médecine, Grenoble, France;Clinique La Prairie, Montreux, Switzerland

关键词: Triglycerides;    Smoking;    Physical activity;    Overweight;    Obesity;    Metabolic syndrome;    Lifestyle;    High-density lipoprotein;    Dietary habits;    Cardiovascular disease;    Cancer;    Alcohol drinking;   

Others  :  855726
DOI  :  10.1186/1741-7015-11-196

 received in 2013-08-12, accepted in 2013-08-15,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Metabolic syndrome is considered as mainly caused by a deleterious lifestyle (sedentarity and diet). That smoking contributes to metabolic syndrome had been suggested by several small studies and a meta-analysis. The interesting study by Slagter et al. published in BMC Medicine is the first very large study confirming this association in both genders, in all classes of body mass index, and in a dose-related manner. Surprisingly, smoking is even associated with increased abdominal fat. Rather than a direct causal effect of smoking, the reason for these associations is most probably the frequent presence of other lifestyle components in smokers. For example, physical inactivity and alcohol drinking are known to be more often present in smokers and could completely explain the observations of the Slagter et al. study. Unfortunately, these factors, already not properly checked in the first studies, were not assessed at all in the present one. However, as it is still on-going, we hope that other lifestyle factors will be included in future publications.

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【 授权许可】

   
2013 Rabaeus et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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