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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes who succeeded in improving their diet and becoming more physically active during the next year had a significantly lower risk of having a cardiovascular disease (CVD) event within 5 years, a new study suggests.
The research examined 4 lifestyle changes: increasing physical activity; decreasing or stopping alcohol consumption; upping both fiber and vitamin-C intake (as a marker of fruit and vegetable consumption); and reducing both calorie and total-fat intake.
Patients who were unable to improve any of these behaviors were 4 times more likely to have a cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack or stroke, or die from CVD during 5 years of follow-up, compared with their peers who made positive changes in at least 3 of the behaviors (P = .005). Becoming more physically active and drinking less alcohol had the biggest effects.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/822958
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The research examined 4 lifestyle changes: increasing physical activity; decreasing or stopping alcohol consumption; upping both fiber and vitamin-C intake (as a marker of fruit and vegetable consumption); and reducing both calorie and total-fat intake.
Patients who were unable to improve any of these behaviors were 4 times more likely to have a cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack or stroke, or die from CVD during 5 years of follow-up, compared with their peers who made positive changes in at least 3 of the behaviors (P = .005). Becoming more physically active and drinking less alcohol had the biggest effects.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/822958
(free registration)
No excrement, Endeavour! (to use trophywench's phrase! 🙂)
