Adapted from Intensive lifestyle counselling and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with diabetes. September 14 2019 Diabetes in Control by Nour Salhab. Pharm. D from Zhang et al Lifestyle counselling and long term clinical outcomes in patients with diabetes. Diabetes Care. Aug. 2019.
Intensive lifestyle counselling has been shown to improve blood sugars in the Look AHEAD study but it was too underpowered to show any significant conclusions regarding cardiac outcomes.
This new study looked at patients with both type one and type two diabetes who had HbAICs over 7% and were over the age of 18. Lifestyle counselling involved diet, exercise and weight loss management. The goal was to get the patient’s HBAICs under 7%.
19,293 patients were involved and the mean HbAIC at the start was 7.8%. My comment: This is a very good average compared to British diabetics!
The mean counselling sessions were 0.46 a month and the study ran for 5.4 years.
HbAIC reduced by 1.8% for patients who got monthly counselling and 0.7% for those who got less than monthly counselling.
The primary end point was time to the first episode of angina, heart attack or stroke or death from any cause. There was a small but significant decrease in the group who had monthly counselling compared to three monthly counselling.
The counselling occurred in academic centres so may not be applicable to other settings.
My comment: This level of counselling is much more intensive than can probably be delivered in the NHS population. The blood sugar levels in the patients was also much better to start with compared to the UK population.
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