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High visit-to-visit body weight variability (BWV) significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular complications and all-cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes, independent of mean body weight or traditional risk factors.
If you have type 2 diabetes, keeping your weight stable is as important as losing it. Frequent weight cycling (yo-yo dieting) significantly increases your risk of heart attack, stroke, and death. Work with your healthcare provider to choose a weight management strategy that you can maintain long-term without significant fluctuations, rather than pursuing aggressive, unsustainable weight loss cycles.
High body weight variability predicts the development of cardiovascular complications in type 2 diabetes. These data suggest that any strategy to reduce the body weight in these subjects should be aimed at maintaining the reduction in the long-term, avoiding oscillations.
Why this rating
Large-scale longitudinal registry data (N=100,576) with robust adjustment for confounders, though observational design limits causal inference.
Source
Variability in body weight and the risk of cardiovascular complications in type 2 diabetes: results from the Swedish National Diabetes Register
Antonio Ceriello et al. · Cardiovascular Diabetology · 2021
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