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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Weight loss is the key factor
in reducing diabetes risk for high-risk, overweight individuals,
a new study shows.
Participants in the intensive lifestyle intervention portion
of the Diabetes Prevention Program, which involved cutting
fat and calories with the goal of reducing by weight by 7
percent, reduced their likelihood of developing diabetes by
58 percent over a 3-year period, report Dr. Richard F. Hamman
at the program's coordinating center at George Washington
University in Rockville, Maryland and colleagues.
At the beginning of the study all of the participants were
overweight and had an impaired ability to process glucose,
putting them at high risk of developing diabetes.
Another goal of the intervention was to get participants to
exercise moderately for at least 2.5 hours weekly, the researchers
add in their report published in the September issue of Diabetes
Care.
Hamman and his team looked for factors that were the most
important in reducing diabetes risk -- weight loss, exercise
or dietary fat reduction. Participants' cut their fat intake
to less than 25 percent of their total calories, and reduced
the amount of total calories if their weight loss goals were
not met by fat reduction alone.
Weight loss was the most important factor in preventing diabetes,
while cutting fat and exercising helped participants lose
weight, and exercise helped them keep the weight off, the
researchers found.
Researchers conclude that Interventions to reduce the risk
of diabetes should aim at weight loss as the primary determinant
of success
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