Type 2 Diabetes

Weight Loss May Reverse Effects

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 12th, 2001

Successful weight loss decreases the risk of developing diabetes and may alleviate non-insulin dependent diabetes in patients who have been diagnosed five years or less.

People who have been affected by diabetes for longer may have improved symptom control with weight loss, according to Susan Z. Yanovski, MD, a leading expert in obesity.

"It's a simple fact: overweight people are at increased risk for type 2 diabetes," declares Yanovski, the executive director of the National Task Force on Prevention and Treatment of Obesity at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the U.S. National Institutes of...

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