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Intensive lifestyle interventions (weight loss) do not significantly reduce cardiovascular event rates in Type 2 Diabetes patients who already have well-controlled baseline cardiovascular risk factors.
If you have Type 2 Diabetes and your blood pressure and cholesterol are already well-managed, intensive weight loss may not further reduce your risk of heart attacks or strokes. However, weight loss remains valuable for improving your quality of life and managing diabetes symptoms. Focus on maintaining your current risk factor control.
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The weight loss intervention... had no effect on LDL cholesterol. In other words, the key causal CVD risk factors in Look AHEAD were very well addressed to begin with and did not (or could not) improve appreciably further with lifestyle intervention.
Why this rating
Based on the Look AHEAD trial, a major randomized controlled trial.
Source
Advances in managing type 2 diabetes: challenging old paradigms and developing new ones
Naveed Sattar · F1000Prime Reports · 2014
DOI 10.12703/p6-42
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