Telemedicine-supported lifestyle intervention for glycemic control in patients with CHD and T2DM: multicenter, randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have a substantially increased risk for major cardiovascular events and mortality. Increasing physical activity and improving a healthy diet may effectively reduce cardiovascular risk factors; however, the effects are often transient. In a multicenter, 1:1 randomized controlled trial including 502 patients with combined CHD and T2DM (68 ± 8 years; 84% men), we assessed the effects of a home-based telemedicine-supported lifestyle intervention (exercise training, nutritional recommendations and health literacy training) with regular individualized feedback versus usual care. The study met its primary endpoint of reduced glycated hemoglobin after 6 months in favor of the lifestyle intervention group (mean between-g

SUBMITTER: Mueller S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12003154 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature