(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 27 - Increasing physical exercise in people with prediabetes can improve blood glucose levels for several years, and therefore delay or even prevent type 2 diabetes. diabetes research, which was published in the scientific journal Diabetes.
According to the researchers, in fact, increased movement and healthy eating behavior help normalize blood glucose levels and avoid developing the disease. But not everyone would benefit from a lifestyle intervention, because in prediabetes there are several subtypes with different risk profiles. Scholars have found that people with prediabetes and high risk (i.e. who produce little insulin or suffer from fatty liver with insulin resistance) have had greater benefits than those with low risk.
"The results of our study show that an individualized lifestyle based on the risk phenotype is beneficial for diabetes prevention," said Andreas Fritsched of the Helmholtz Research Institute on Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Munich at the University of Tübingen.
"For effective prevention - he adds - we must identify high-risk patients in the future and focus on providing them with an intensified lifestyle intervention".
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