Research
Metabolic adaptation
An intensive lifestyle intervention can achieve a 5–10% weight loss and improve sleep apnea quality-of-life indices, achieve cardiometabolic biomarker improvements, and reduce need for medications.
Practitioners should consider intensive lifestyle interventions for diabetic patients to achieve significant health benefits.
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The Look AHEAD (Actions for Health in Diabetes) trial provides evidence, specific to diabetes, that an intensive lifestyle intervention can achieve a 5–10% weight loss and can improve sleep apnea quality-of-life indices, achieve cardiometabolic biomarker improvements, and reduce need for medications.
Why this rating
Based on the Look AHEAD trial, which is a large RCT.
Source
Weight-Loss Intervention by Telephone: Lessons Learned
Judith Wylie‐Rosett · Diabetes Care · 2014
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