Scientists found that remission from type 2 diabetes is possible for people with lower BMIs.
They found that remission of type 2 diabetes is possible even for some people with lower body weights.
The research was presented at the 2022 Diabetes UK Professional Conference and was conducted by Professor Roy Taylor et al.
In the study, the team showed a staggering 70% of participants with lower body weights went into type 2 remission through diet-induced weight loss, despite not living with obesity or overweight.
While obesity increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, 10% of people with type 2 diabetes have a BMI that is not in the obesity or overweight category.
The team says this is very good news for everyone with type 2 diabetes, not only pointing the way forward for an effective return to health but also challenging the misconceptions clinging to the condition.
A previous study found that shedding fat from inside the pancreas and liver—the two key organs involved in blood sugar control—was key to remission from type 2 in people living with obesity or overweight.
To find out if losing excess fat from these organs could also help people with BMIs in the healthy range to go into remission from type 2 diabetes, the team put 20 people with the condition and a BMI at or just above the healthy range (BMI below 27) on a similar low-calorie diet program.
Following on from last year’s promising preliminary results, the findings for the first time that people with type 2 diabetes and lower BMIs can be supported to put their type 2 into remission through a structured low-calorie diet program, and that the key to this is losing harmful fat from the liver and pancreas.
Participants reported feeling satisfied with their weight loss and health improvements and didn’t report difficulties with keeping the weight off that they’d lost.
The team hopes they can make many people as possible have the chance to put their type 2 diabetes into remission and live well for longer.
The findings of this study potentially take us a significant step closer to achieving this goal by showing that remission isn’t only possible for people of certain body weights.
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