Research
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Personalized diet counseling combined with exercise can lead to the reversal of Metabolic Syndrome in a subset of patients (19%) over 12 months.
A structured lifestyle intervention involving both diet and exercise can reverse Metabolic Syndrome in nearly 1 in 5 patients over a year.
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Results of the primary study showed 19% reversal of MetS after 1 year.
Why this rating
Secondary analysis of a feasibility study, but reports on a primary outcome of the main study.
Source
Key process features of personalized diet counselling in metabolic syndrome: secondary analysis of feasibility study in primary care
Paula Brauer et al. · BMC Nutrition · 2022
DOI 10.1186/s40795-022-00540-9
cohort · n=293Cited 6×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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