Physical Activity Can Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
Recent research has concluded that a combination of increased physical activity and healthy eating along with anti-diabetic medication metformin can help delay or prevent Type 2 Diabetes in adults with prediabetes, reports McKnight’s.
Ronald B. Goldberg, M.D., chair of the writing group for the study and a professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology in the division of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism, and senior faculty member and co-director of the Diabetes Research Institute Clinical Laboratory at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine in Miami, stated, “We were focused on assessing the impact of lifestyle or metformin interventions for prevention of type 2 diabetes in people with prediabetes to reduce cardiovascular disease.”