Very-Low-Calorie Diet and 6 Months of Weight Stability in Type 2 Diabetes: Pathophysiologic Changes in Responders and Nonresponders -

Very-Low-Calorie Diet and 6 Months of Weight Stability in Type 2 Diabetes: Pathophysiologic Changes in Responders and Nonresponders
Information type: Other primary research
Source: Diabetes Care
Specialities: Diabetes
Summary
In this study of people with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) who followed a very low calorie diet (VLCD) for 8 weeks (n=30), weight fell from 98.0kg to 83.8kg and remained stable over 6 months. HbA1c fell from 7.1 to 5.8% in responders and from 8.4 to 8.4 in non-responders.
UKMi comment
Responders were defined as achieving fasting blood glucose <7 mmol/L after return to isocaloric diet.
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