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Management of obesity in patients with Type 2 diabetes
Author(s) -
Campbell L.,
Rössner S.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
diabetic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.474
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1464-5491
pISSN - 0742-3071
DOI - 10.1046/j.1464-5491.2001.00546.x
Subject(s) - medicine , weight loss , type 2 diabetes , obesity , diabetes mellitus , management of obesity , adverse effect , weight control , intensive care medicine , surgery , physical therapy , endocrinology
Although prevention is clearly a logical first step in the management of the obese Type 2 diabetic patient, such programmes have had little long‐term success. Diet, exercise and behavioural modification still form the cornerstones of treatment and relatively small weight loss results in improvement of all major obesity‐related co‐morbidities, including Type 2 diabetes. The obese diabetic patient faces extra impediments to weight loss, including the adverse effects of diabetic medication, poor glycaemic control and diabetes‐related complications. New drugs may offer some additional help, in general by providing the benefit associated with the weight loss as such. Bariatric surgery can produce major long‐term weight loss in the severely obese. Diabet. Med. 18, 345–354 (2001)