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Study Shows Type 2 Diabetes Remission Reduces Heart and Kidney Disease

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This story also appears on Everyday Health’s network site Diabetes Daily.

New study results are the first to show that people who can “reverse” type 2 diabetes through intensive lifestyle intervention — even if only temporarily — are less likely to develop heart and kidney disease in later life.

“Reversal” isn’t a medical term; doctors prefer to use the word “remission” (per Everyday Health’s network site, Diabetes Daily), which, for type 2 diabetes, is defined as when a person’s A1C — a measure used to monitor blood sugar over a few months — falls below the diabetes range (less than 6.5 percent) without the use of blood sugar–lowering medication.

“There’s a lot of interest in the idea of remission of type 2 diabetes in the news these days. This is the first study to ask the questions ‘What happens after that? What happens after people achieve remission?’” explains lead author Edward W Gregg, PhD, professor at the School of Public Health at Imperial College in London.

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