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Article: Modest weight loss lowers risks of hypertension and diabetes.(Brief Article)
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- Diabetes Week
- Article date:
- February 17, 2003
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2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A review by a researcher in Spain on the benefits of weight loss concluded that new methods of helping obese patients lose weight and then maintain a healthy weight must be developed, despite the difficulties most patients have maintaining weight loss, because of the risk reductions that result.
"Obesity is associated with type 2 diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia," commented J. Vidal at the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona. "Modest weight loss has been shown to have a beneficial effect on these cardiovascular risk factors and to improve risk factor clustering. Recent lifestyle intervention studies also suggest that ...