How to Changes lifestyle to lower risk of type 2 diabetes
Changes intensive lifestyle for moderate weight loss reduced the rate of developing type 2 diabetes by 34 percent over 10 years in people at high risk of disease.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and 26 other sites nationwide provide the results of the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS), a 10-year follow up study of patients who participated in the program Diabetes Prevention (DPP).
The results appear in the October 29 online edition of The Lancet.
DPPOS found that patients at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, who made lifestyle changes also, had lower blood pressure and triglycerides.
Moreover, the study showed that oral therapy with diabetes drugs, but lifestyle changes intensive, reduced rate of developing diabetes by 18 percent after 10 years, compared with placebo.
Completed in 2001, the Attorney was three years; the study randomized more than 3,200 overweight or obese adults with blood sugar, putting them at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Forty-five percent of participants were from minority groups are disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asians, Pacific Islanders and American Indians.
DPP results showed that changes in lifestyle that includes intense physical activity, reduced calorie and fat intake and frequent interaction with health professionals, reduced development of type 2 diabetes by 58 percent after three years.
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