The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the world is expected to rise dramatically to 700 million people in 2045.
Stroke is one of the major complications in people with diabetes.
These people are not only at higher of stroke but also have diminished and slower recovery in the rehabilitation phase.
While lifestyle changes, including weight loss, can partly reduce the risk of stroke, no study has investigated whether such an approach can also result in better neurological recovery after stroke.
In a new study from Karolinska Institutet, researchers found that diet-induced weight loss, if leading to pre-stroke normalization of glucose metabolism, has great potential to reduce the sequelae of stroke in people with diabetes.
The results of the study demonstrate the efficacy of weight loss, through a diet intervention, to improve neurological recovery after stroke.
Importantly, the weight loss needs to be long-lasting and lead to the overall improvement of metabolism, i.e. normalization of glycemia and insulin resistance.
A shorter dietary change leading to the same weight loss but not to the improvement of the overall metabolic profile was ineffective to facilitate neurological recovery after stroke.
The findings suggest that people with diabetes might have a better prognosis after a stroke if weight loss will be given a high priority after diabetes is diagnosed.
If you care about stroke, please read studies about this blood thinner drug plus aspirin could strongly reduce stroke risk and findings of a new way to prevent recurrent stroke.
For more information about diabetes, please see recent studies about health problems that cause half of new diabetes cases annually in U.S., and results showing a new way to treat heart disease in type 2 diabetes.
The study was conducted by Dimitra Karampatsi et al., and published in Cardiovascular Diabetology.
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