Long-term Fitness Reduces Risk of Diabetes, Prediabetes

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Long-term Fitness Reduces Risk of Diabetes, Prediabetes


Higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness maintained or increased from early adulthood to middle age significantly reduce an individual’s risk of developing prediabetes and diabetes, a new analysis of data from a long-term prospective study suggests.
Crucially, Lisa S Chow, MD, from the division of diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolism, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and colleagues found that the association between incremental increases and objective physical fitness and prediabetes and type 2 diabetes risk held even after taking into account factors such as body mass index (BMI).
Dr Chow told Medscape Medical News that, although the results were “modest on an individual level,” when they are considered on a population level, they “really emphasize the importance of fitness and that improving fitness through physical activity can reduce prediabetes and diabetes.”
The research was published online in Diabetologia on May 16.

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