According to the 2021 IDF estimation more than 500 million people are living with diabetes worldwide with another more than 500 million people having prediabetes. People with type 2 diabetes are known to have a significant genetic predisposition, however, high caloric diets and sedentary lifestyle are major drivers of the diabetes pandemic. A number of clinical studies have demonstrated the beneficial effects of body weight reduction and modifying the lifestyle on the incidence of diabetes and associated outcomes.
Hence, besides pharmacological interventions, interventions to modify disadvantageous dietary patterns, sedentary lifestyle or cardiovascular risk increasing behavior are urgently needed to reduce the future burden of obesity and disturbed glucose metabolism, both in type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
This special issue aims to stimulate research on improved identification and diagnosis of people at risk for dysglycaemia and associated complications, interventions to increase physical activity in prediabetes and diabetes (T1D and T2D), non-pharmacological interventions to reduce body weight and improve glucose control or research to improve adherence to beneficial lifestyle changes.
This special issue welcomes epidemiological as well as well-designed clinical studies or mechanistic studies (also non-human) within the following areas of interest:
• Identification of people risk of prediabetes and diabetes
• Interventions to reduce sedentary lifestyle
• Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce body weight
• Non-pharmacological interventions to prevent prediabetes/diabetes or to improve glycaemic control
• Dietary interventions to improve prediabetes/diabetes related outcomes
According to the 2021 IDF estimation more than 500 million people are living with diabetes worldwide with another more than 500 million people having prediabetes. People with type 2 diabetes are known to have a significant genetic predisposition, however, high caloric diets and sedentary lifestyle are major drivers of the diabetes pandemic. A number of clinical studies have demonstrated the beneficial effects of body weight reduction and modifying the lifestyle on the incidence of diabetes and associated outcomes.
Hence, besides pharmacological interventions, interventions to modify disadvantageous dietary patterns, sedentary lifestyle or cardiovascular risk increasing behavior are urgently needed to reduce the future burden of obesity and disturbed glucose metabolism, both in type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
This special issue aims to stimulate research on improved identification and diagnosis of people at risk for dysglycaemia and associated complications, interventions to increase physical activity in prediabetes and diabetes (T1D and T2D), non-pharmacological interventions to reduce body weight and improve glucose control or research to improve adherence to beneficial lifestyle changes.
This special issue welcomes epidemiological as well as well-designed clinical studies or mechanistic studies (also non-human) within the following areas of interest:
• Identification of people risk of prediabetes and diabetes
• Interventions to reduce sedentary lifestyle
• Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce body weight
• Non-pharmacological interventions to prevent prediabetes/diabetes or to improve glycaemic control
• Dietary interventions to improve prediabetes/diabetes related outcomes
