A post-hoc analysis of the German Prediabetes Lifestyle Intervention Study has found that people who achieve remission of prediabetes by losing weight through lifestyle intervention for 12 months may reduce their risk for developing type 2 diabetes.

Lifestyle intervention proves “highly successful” in adults with diabetes aged 65 to 85 years, improving both metabolic and functional health, report researchers.

People with newly detected type 2 diabetes may gain more from a lifestyle intervention if supported by peers who have had the condition for longer, suggest findings from a randomized trial.

A telehealth-based lifestyle intervention can significantly reduce excessive gestational weight gain relative to usual antenatal care, among pregnant women who are overweight or obese, US study findings indicate.

Meta-analysis data show that lifestyle modification interventions can reduce the risk for developing type 2 diabetes by more than a third in high-risk adults of South Asian origin.

Lifestyle interventions to delay the onset of type 2 diabetes result in marked long-term reductions in cardiovascular disease and mortality, shows the 30-year follow-up of the Da Qing Diabetes Prevention Outcome Study.

A 6-year diet and exercise intervention significantly reduces the long-term risk for cardiovascular disease in Chinese adults with impaired glucose tolerance, research suggests.

A meta-analysis shows that although medications and lifestyle changes can both reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes in high-risk patients, only lifestyle modifications have a sustained effect.

A multimodal telemedical lifestyle intervention improves glycemic control compared with standard care among patients with advanced type 2 diabetes, researchers report.

A postpartum lifestyle intervention may help women with gestational diabetes to lose weight following childbirth, indicate results from the 1-year analysis of the Tianjin Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Prevention Program randomized controlled trial.

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“[T]he fact that these intervention effects might not persist is not a failure of the initial intervention, but due to a lack of maintenance interventions,” they write in The Cochrane Library .

Adding an intensive lifestyle intervention to usual care slightly improves glycemic control but substantially reduces the need for glucose-lowering medication among patients with non–insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes, suggest trial results published as a preliminary communication in JAMA .

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Liraglutide enhances the positive effects of lifestyle intervention on weight loss and glycemic control in patients with prediabetes, show the 3-year outcomes of the SCALE Obesity and Prediabetes trial.

Session attendance was only moderate and self-monitoring very poor in youths with type 2 diabetes who participated in the TODAY lifestyle programme, an analysis shows.

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Jiang L et al. Diabetes Care 2018; 41: 1462–1470. doi: 10.2337/dc17-2685