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Post-diagnosis weight loss of more than 1% per year is associated with a decreased risk of microvascular complications (kidney disease and neuropathy) compared to stable weight.
If you have Type 2 Diabetes, achieving a modest weight loss of just over 1% of your body weight per year after diagnosis can significantly lower your risk of kidney and nerve damage. This does not require extreme dieting; small, consistent changes are effective.
In analyses according to BMI change categories, BMI loss of more than 1% indicated a decreased risk of total microvascular complications (HR 0.62 [95% CI 0.47, 0.80]), kidney disease (HR 0.57 [95% CI 0.40, 0.81]) and neuropathy (HR 0.73 [95% CI 0.52, 1.03]), compared with participants with a stable BMI.
Why this rating
Prospective cohort with robust adjustment; however, observational nature limits causal inference compared to RCTs.
Source
BMI and BMI change following incident type 2 diabetes and risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications: the EPIC-Potsdam study
Elli Polemiti et al. · Diabetologia · 2021
DOI 10.1007/s00125-020-05362-7
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