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HanneleYki-Järvinen

Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes

Essentials

  • A person with diabetes should understand the permanent nature and severity of the illness - the condition is more an arterial illness than an illness of the glucose metabolism. In addition to hyperglycaemia, identify and treat effectively all other risk factors of atherosclerosis (smoking, hypertension, dyslipidaemia).
  • Explain the importance of self-care to the patient. It is possible to get rid of diabetes completely. Emphasize the importance of weight reduction to overweight patients. However, other lifestyle modifications Lifestyle Education in Type 2 Diabetes will also form a part of the treatment, even when they do not lead to weight reduction (exercise, smoking cessation, avoidance of energy-dense carbohydrates and saturated fat in the diet). At the early stage it is good to tell that particularly a patient with overweight may through lifestyle changes achieve remission and hence need no medications Intensive Weight Management for Remission of Type 2 DiabetesLifestyle Education in Type 2 Diabetes.

Investigations at diagnosis

Principles of patient education