If remission is achieved by reducing the dose, the risk of heart and kidney disease decreases.
Posted on 01/20/2024 at 10.01pm Posted on 01/20/2024 at 10.01pm Modified on 01/20/2024 at 10.02pm Views 0
People who maintained diabetes remission for more than four years had a 49 percent reduced risk of developing heart disease and a 55 percent reduced risk of developing kidney disease. [사진=게티이미지뱅크]A new study shows that losing weight to treat type 2 diabetes also reduces the risk of developing heart and kidney disease. This is what the health and medicine webzine ‘Health Day’ reported on the 19th (local time), based on an article by Irish and American researchers published in Diabetologia.
Researchers followed 5,145 overweight or obese adults with type 2 diabetes for 12 years. About 18% of patients randomly assigned to an intensive diet and lifestyle regimen controlled their diabetes to the point where they no longer needed medications, which researchers considered to be in remission (not a cure, but a state in which the clinical symptoms have practically disappeared). .
The researchers found that these patients had a lower incidence of heart and kidney disease than patients who did not achieve remission. The risk of developing heart disease was 40% lower and of kidney disease by 33%. If remission continues for a long period of time, the risk becomes even lower. People who remained in remission for more than four years had a 49 percent reduced risk of developing heart disease and a 55 percent reduced risk of developing kidney disease.
Maintaining a state of remission is not easy. The researchers found that only 3% of patients were still in remission by the eighth year of the study. However, even though the period was short, those who achieved remission had a lower risk of heart and kidney disease than those who did not achieve remission.
“This is the first interventional study linking remission with a reduction in diabetes-related complications,” said Professor Edward Gregg of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (RSCI), lead author of the paper. can achieve remission in type 2 diabetes.” he said. “Our study shows that maintaining weight loss is difficult, but it also shows that somehow achieving remission can have health benefits later in life,” he added.
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2024-01-20 13:02:17
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