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Review: exercise plus diet prevents type 2 diabetes
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D Mauricio
Dr D Mauricio, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain; dmauricio@arnau.scs.es
Do exercise and diet interventions, alone or in combination, prevent type 2 diabetes mellitus?
Studies selected compared exercise plus diet or exercise alone with standard recommendations or no intervention, or exercise alone with diet alone, for 
6 months and reported incidence of diabetes in people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Studies of pharmacological agents were excluded. Outcomes included incidence of type 2 diabetes; glucose tolerance; fasting glucose, cholesterol, and triglyceride concentrations; blood pressure; body weight; body mass index; waist-to-hip ratio; and waist circumference.
Medline, CINAHL, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Cochrane Library (Issue 1, 2008), LILACS, SocioFile, Current Controlled Trials, and reference lists were searched to March 2008 for randomised controlled trials (RCTs). 8 RCTs (n = 5956, mean age 50 y) met the selection criteria. Duration of follow-up ranged from 1 to 7 years.
Meta-analysis showed that
School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Cardiff University, Caerleon, South Wales, UK
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