{"title":"[Life-style modification].","authors":"Raimund Weitgasser","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diabetes education, nutritional advice, exercise recommendations and training for smoking cessation comprise the mainstay of diabetes treatment before starting drug therapy. Prevention as well as treatment of diabetes mellitus is positively influenced by life-style modification. In addition cardiovascular risk factors can be reduced by such measures. The article gives in brief recommendations leading towards life-style modification based on current evidence.</p>","PeriodicalId":6945,"journal":{"name":"Acta medica Austriaca","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta medica Austriaca","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Diabetes education, nutritional advice, exercise recommendations and training for smoking cessation comprise the mainstay of diabetes treatment before starting drug therapy. Prevention as well as treatment of diabetes mellitus is positively influenced by life-style modification. In addition cardiovascular risk factors can be reduced by such measures. The article gives in brief recommendations leading towards life-style modification based on current evidence.