New Delhi, 13 December. A recent study reveals that prediabetic patients who manage to control their blood sugar levels effectively can reduce the risk of serious heart diseases by nearly 60 percent.
Published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, the research shows that normalising blood glucose levels, meaning successfully treating prediabetes, lowers the chances of death from heart disease or hospitalisation due to heart failure.
Individuals who overcame prediabetes had a 58 percent lower risk of cardiovascular death or hospital admission for heart failure. Researchers from King’s College London noted that this beneficial effect persisted for decades after glucose levels were normalised, demonstrating a lasting impact on blood glucose regulation.
This finding is especially significant as recent studies found that lifestyle changes alone—such as exercise, weight loss, and improved diet—do not reduce cardiovascular risks in people with prediabetes.
Dr. Andreas Birkenfeld, reader in diabetes at King’s College London and University Hospital Tübingen, who led the study, said, “This study challenges one of modern preventive medicine’s biggest assumptions. Prediabetic individuals have long been advised that losing weight, exercising more, and eating healthily will protect them from heart attacks and premature death. While these lifestyle changes are undoubtedly valuable, evidence does not support that they reduce heart attacks or mortality in people with prediabetes.”
He added, “Instead, we show that remission of prediabetes is clearly linked to a significant reduction in fatal cardiac events, heart failure, and all-cause mortality.”
Prediabetes is a condition where blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes.
Previous studies indicated that combined lifestyle interventions, including increased exercise and healthy eating, do not lower cardiovascular disease in prediabetics. This suggests delaying diabetes onset alone does not guarantee cardiovascular protection without significant metabolic changes.
Birkenfeld said, “The study results mean that prediabetes remission, alongside lowering blood pressure, cholesterol, and quitting smoking, could become the fourth major primary prevention tool that truly prevents heart attacks and deaths.”
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