Remission of type 2 diabetes: a real perspective for clinical pratice

Abstract

The Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is probably the biggest challenges of global public health. In United States, 4% of all Gross Domestic Product is spent with the diabetes complications. Despite the progress on studies to refrain the diabetes complications, the most effort is target for iniciatives like a search with new pharmacological oportunities and there is less interest in the cientific comunity and governments to study plausible and applicable strategies of lifestylechanges in diabetes. Even so, the publication of Diabetes Prevention Programstudy, that demonstrated the expressive reduction in the primary outcome, diagnosis of diabetes, was a Mark that starts a series of studies looking for the remission of T2D. The DiRECT study is the most strong evidence to demonstrate the remission of T2D in humans with lifestyle changes with results until 89% in patients that reduced their weight in 15% of initial. The objective of this review is present and discuss the Lifestyle Medicine as a real possibility for Diabetes Type 2 Remission.