Comparison of the effects of frequent versus conventional nutritional interventions in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A randomized, controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/introduction

This randomized controlled trial aimed to determine whether frequent nutritional education improves the clinical parameters associated with the onset and progression of diabetic kidney disease in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.

Materials and methods

A total of 96 patients with type 2 diabetes and diabetic kidney disease were randomly assigned to the intensive intervention group that received nutritional education at every outpatient visit, and the usual intervention group that received nutritional education once a year. The anthropometric parameters, blood pressure, blood chemistry, albuminuria, protein and salt intake, and prescribed medications of 87 patients who completed the 2-year follow up were analyzed.

Results

In the intensive intervention

SUBMITTER: Kawabata N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8847137 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature