{"id":1947,"date":"2012-06-11T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T16:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2012-06-11T16:11:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T16:11:34","slug":"approach-to-diabetes-treatment-needs-to-be-early-and-aggressive-3268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/approach-to-diabetes-treatment-needs-to-be-early-and-aggressive-3268\/","title":{"rendered":"Approach to Diabetes Treatment needs to be &#8220;Early and Aggressive&#8221;-3268"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in America have called for an \u201cearly and aggressive\u201d approach to try and battle type 2 diabetes \u2013 one of the most common chronic conditions in both America and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>According to a study published in <em>The Lancet <\/em>patients who display signs of pre-diabetes should be treated as quickly as possible to restore stable blood glucose levels and prevent the development of diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that around 7.2 million people have pre-diabetes in the UK and almost 80 million people have symptoms in the USA. Type 2 diabetes is not just dangerous in its own right \u2013 it is also associated with an increased risk of life-threatening heart disease and strokes. Many cases of diabetes also go undiagnosed for a long time and increase the risk of complications and long-term damage.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases of pre-diabetes, symptoms can be reversed and normal blood glucose levels restored by lifestyle changes, including doing more exercise and eating a healthy, balanced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/healthguide\/nutritionindex.htm\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"56\" title=\"diet\">diet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research study, which was conducted by the US Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group, aimed to determine how effective early treatment was in preventing the development of type 2 diabetes. Researchers followed 1,900 people with symptoms of pre-diabetes and found that those who managed to restore their blood sugar levels to normal through exercise and diet were 56 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes during the six year study period.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Leigh Perreault, lead author of the study, said that the results showed that it was extremely beneficial to try and restore blood glucose levels to normal in patients with pre-diabetes and health experts have described the findings of the study as \u201cclinically important\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in America have called for an \u201cearly and aggressive\u201d approach to try and battle type 2 diabetes \u2013 one of the most common chronic conditions in both America and the UK. According to a study published in The Lancet patients who display signs of pre-diabetes should be treated as quickly as possible to restore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[422,1337,1205,1183,1184],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-health","tag-diabetes","tag-diabetes-treatment","tag-diet-and-exercise","tag-pre-diabetes","tag-type-2-diabetes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888008809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}