One Lifestyle Change. Five Fewer Diseases. Twenty-One…

One Lifestyle Change. Five Fewer Diseases. Twenty-One Years Later. Published by TALMedora Editorial | Preventive Medicine | Diabetes | Healthy Ageing Most patients with prediabetes leave the clinic with one message. Watch your diet. Exercise more. We will recheck in six months. A landmark study published in JAMA this week, tracking 1,173 adults for 21 years, just showed exactly how powerful that message can be when it is actually delivered as a structured, intensive programme. And how much is lost when it is not. Adults with prediabetes were randomised to intensive lifestyle intervention, metformin or placebo and followed for two decades through the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study. By the end of follow-up, 85% of all participants had developed two or more chronic conditions. The median was five condition