Adherence
Intensive lifestyle intervention (caloric restriction + 175 min/week moderate exercise) in overweight/obese T2DM patients reduces cardiovascular risk factors and improves quality of life but does not significantly reduce major cardiovascular events compared to standard diabetes education.
For T2DM patients, aiming for 175 minutes of moderate exercise and calorie restriction weekly is recommended for overall health and risk factor management, but do not expect this alone to guarantee a reduction in heart attacks or strokes. The primary benefit is improved quality of life and metabolic markers, not necessarily event reduction.
Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes; see Table 1 for full trial names) tested the hypothesis that weight loss in patients with T2DM could reduce the risk of CV events... Although intensive lifestyle intervention was associated with significant weight loss and improvements in several CVD risk factors, there was no effect on the rate of CV events during long-term follow-up, and the trial was stopped for reasons of futility after a median follow-up of almost 10 years.
Why this rating
Based on a large, long-term randomized controlled trial (Look AHEAD) with a median follow-up of 10 years.
Source
Importance of cardiovascular disease risk management in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Daniel Lorber · Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity · 2014
DOI 10.2147/dmso.s61438
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