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Intensive lifestyle intervention in overweight/obese type 2 diabetic patients significantly reduces the risk of nephropathy, eye disease, sleep apnea, and hospitalizations, even if it does not reduce major cardiovascular events.
Stick with your weight loss and exercise plan. Even if it doesn't lower your heart attack risk, it significantly lowers your risk of kidney disease, eye problems, sleep apnea, and hospital stays. These are major quality-of-life improvements.
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Other benefits of weight loss and exercise include 14% decrease in eye disease, less obstructive sleep apnea, improved sexual dysfunction in women, fewer hospitalizations, and less urinary incontinence... nephropathy... was 31% lower in the ILI group.
Why this rating
Based on the same high-quality Look AHEAD trial data.
Source
Look Action for Health in Diabetes trial: What we have learned in terms of real world practice and clinical trials
Ching‐Fai Kwok et al. · Journal of Diabetes Investigation · 2014
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