Your Doctor Might Be Able to Take You Off Diabetes Meds

Experts are cautiously optimistic but warn that the approach faces real-world limits.
Your Doctor Might Be Able to Take You Off Diabetes Meds
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Research reveals that, in everyday office visit settings, doctors are successfully helping some patients with Type 2 diabetes reduce or even stop their medications through simple lifestyle changes.

Some Type 2 diabetes patients were able to cut or eliminate their medications through diet and exercise—not through specialized programs, but through ordinary visits with their primary care doctors, according to a recent study.
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George Citroner reports on health and medicine, covering topics that include cancer, infectious diseases, and neurodegenerative conditions. He was awarded the Media Orthopaedic Reporting Excellence (MORE) award in 2020 for a story on osteoporosis risk in men.