Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Diabetes Research Volume 2015, Article ID 468704, 4 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/468704
Research Article Diabetes Remission after Nonsurgical Intensive Lifestyle Intervention in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Adham Mottalib, Mahmoud Sakr, Mohamed Shehabeldin, and Osama Hamdy Joslin Diabetes Center, One Joslin Place, Boston, MA 02215, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Osama Hamdy;
[email protected] Received 17 March 2015; Revised 6 May 2015; Accepted 6 May 2015 Academic Editor: Hiroshi Okamoto Copyright © 2015 Adham Mottalib et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Partial or complete remission from type 2 diabetes was recently observed after bariatric surgeries. Limited data is available about the possibility of inducing diabetes remission through intensive weight reduction. We retrospectively evaluated diabetes remissions after one year of the Weight Achievement and Intensive Treatment (Why WAIT) program, a 12-week intensive program for diabetes weight management in real-world clinical practice. Among 120 obese patients with type 2 diabetes who completed the program, 88 patients returned for follow-up at one year. Nineteen patients (21.6%) had major improvement in their glycemic control, defined as achieving an A1C
