Losing a few kilos of weight in half reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a large -scale research published in the scientific journal Jama Internal Medicine.The study shows how it is possibleThe risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
The findings come from the Norfolk Diabetes Prevention Study (NDPS), the world's largest diabetes prevention research study in the last 30 years promoted by Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the University of East Anglia.
The NDPS clinical trial was carried out for eight years and involved more than 1,000 people with high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The study found that support to make modest changes in the lifestyle, including the loss of twoThree kilograms of weight and the increase in physical activity for two years, reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes between 40 and 47 percent for those classified as prediabetes.
"Until now no one was very sure if a real -world lifestyle program prevented type 2 diabetes in the prediabetic population we study, since there has been no study that has demonstrated it," says the principal investigator, theProfessor Mike Sampson."Now we have demonstrated a significant effect on the prevention of diabetes, and we can be very optimistic that even a modest weight loss, and a moderate increase in physical activity have a great effect on the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes,"duck.
The previous studies had used “intense and expensive” research interventions, according to the authors, in different groups of prediabetes participants, but this is the first time that a more realistic intervention proved to reduce the risk of suffering from such disease.Professor Colin Greaves of the University of Birmingham, who jointly directed the development of the NDPS intervention, has affirmed that, if the person has been diagnosed for prediabetes, “this approach offers a way of taking a different direction in his life to go outfrom the path of type 2 diabetes and move towards a healthier future ”.
For its part, the NDPS collaborator of the University of Exeter, Dr. Jane Smith, said that type 2 diabetes is "a huge challenge for health worldwide", so this study is "an incrediblypositive for individuals and health systems, ”and underlines the importance of providing diabetics with national prevention strategies" that can use the results of these research. "
