Weight control program ups diabetics’ well being
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with type 2 diabetes show improvements in their physical and mental health-related quality of life after a year of participation in a weight management program, a report out this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows.
And those who were doing the worst at the study’s outset showed the greatest increases in well being, Dr. Donald A. Williamson of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and his colleagues found.
Williamson and his team had previously reported that participants in the 16-center Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) trial lost 8.77 kilograms, on average, or 8.58 percent of their body weight, after a year in the program.
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