Why weight loss produces remission of type 2 diabetes in some patients
Thursday, August 2, 2018 - 18:40
in Health & Medicine
A clinical trial recently showed that nearly half of individuals with type 2 diabetes achieved remission to a non-diabetic state after a weight-loss intervention delivered within six years of diagnosis. Now a new study eveals that this successful response to weight loss is associated with the early and sustained improvement in the functioning of pancreatic beta cells.