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• Smokers should be screened for type 2 diabetes, Harvard researchers say 

Smokers should be screened for type 2 diabetes and encouraged to quit smoking to prevent it, two Boston researchers recommend based on a new review of studies linking smoking and diabetes.

Already the leading cause of preventable death around the world, smoking has now been tied to a 44 percent higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, Swiss researchers report in a review of 25 studies of 1.2 million people, published in tomorrow's Journal of the American Medical Association.

Two Harvard researchers, writing in an editorial that also appears in the journal, call on physicians to test smokers for diabetes and encourage them to quit.

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