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August 8, 2024Diabetic Medicine

Very‐low‐calorie diet‐based intensive lifestyle intervention for remission of type 2 diabetes: Real‐world experience in a South Asian population

Harsha Dissanayake Dulitha Fernando Akhila Nilaweera Thushara Dharshana Munasinghe C. M. A. U. Kaushalya M. M. Pulukkody Prasad Katulanda

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Abstract

Very low-calorie diet (VLCD) can induce weight loss and diabetes remission (DR) amongst people with obesity and recent-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D). We aimed to determine the effectiveness and acceptability of VLCD in achieving DR amongst Sri Lankan adults with T2D.

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Dissanayake et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e5cfffb6db6435875666fb https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.15422

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