Optimum protection against diabetes: Weight loss plus remission of prediabetes
08 Jul 2024 by Ted Escobedo 1 min read
People with prediabetes are advised to reduce their weight to prevent manifest diabetes. Researchers from the Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of Helmholtz Munich at the University of Tübingen, a partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), together with US colleagues in the "Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)," have now been able to show for the first time that people achieve the best diabetes protection when they reduce their weight and at the same time normalize blood sugar regulation. In the specialist journal Diabetologia, the authors argue that the normalization of blood sugar levels in prediabetes should be included as a therapeutic goal in the guidelines to improve the prevention of type 2 diabetes.
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