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Intensive lifestyle intervention leads to significant long-term weight loss and improvements in microvascular complications (diabetes remission, kidney disease, sleep apnea) in individuals with type 2 diabetes, despite failing to reduce macrovascular cardiovascular events.
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Intensive Lifestyle Intervention also decreased the risk of developing kidney disease and self-reported diabetic eye disease... Intensive Lifestyle Intervention participants were more likely than those in the Diabetes Support and Education Group to experience a complete or partial remission of their diabetes
Why this rating
Large-scale, randomized, long-term clinical trial.
Source
Implications of Look <scp>AHEAD</scp> for clinical trials and clinical practice
Rena R. Wing · Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism · 2014
DOI 10.1111/dom.12318
narrative_review · n=5145Cited 15×
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