{"id":14398,"date":"2019-10-24T19:45:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=14398"},"modified":"2019-10-24T19:45:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:45:23","slug":"diabetes-and-weight-regain-reduces-cardiovascular-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/weight-loss\/diabetes-and-weight-regain-reduces-cardiovascular-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes and Weight Regain Reduces Cardiovascular Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Men with type 2 diabetes might have been told that losing weight would help lower their risk of cardiovascular problems. But what if you gain the weight back? Do the benefits stick around? A new study says no.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Analyzing diabetes, weight regain and cardiovascular health<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of scientists from Tufts University and the University of Connecticut wanted to know if weight loss maintenance was as crucial as weight loss in terms of cardiovascular risks in people with diabetes. They looked at the data for 1,561 men and women with type 2 diabetes who had lost at least 3% of their body weight in a one-year lifestyle intervention. Then they analyzed the data at the follow-up 4 years later. They found that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Those who had regained some or all of the weight lost the cardiovascular benefits that the weight loss had created.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Those who had lost at least 10% of their body weight at the beginning of the trial and managed to maintain at least 75% of that weight loss at the 4-year follow-up had maintained or increased the cardiovascular benefits.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How weight loss helps diabetes and cardiovascular health<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why did the weight loss help? There are several factors.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Their \u201cgood\u201d cholesterol improved.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Their triglycerides were better.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Their blood sugar levels were better.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Their blood pressure was better.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Their waist circumference was smaller.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Their overall diabetes symptoms were under control.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe bottom line is that maintaining the majority of the weight loss is essential to reducing cardiovascular risk,\u201d explains Professor Alice Lichtenstein, senior author of the study. \u201cOur findings suggest that in addition to focusing on weight loss, increased emphasis should be placed on the importance of maintaining weight loss over the long term.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results of the study were published in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of the American Heart Association.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men with type 2 diabetes might have been told that losing weight would help lower their risk of cardiovascular problems. But what if you gain the weight back? Do the benefits stick around? A new study says no. Analyzing diabetes, weight regain and cardiovascular health A team of scientists from Tufts University and the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[753,703],"tags":[714,796],"class_list":["post-14398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diabetes","category-weight-loss","tag-diabetes","tag-weight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}