Does dietary modification and/or physical activity reduce the progression from impaired glucose tolerance to type 2 diabetes?

Mackerras, Dorothy EM

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05231.x

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Trial: Pan XR, Li GW, Hu YH, et al. Effect of diet and exercise in preventing NIDDM in people with impaired glucose tolerance: the Da Qing IGT and diabetes study. Diabetes Care 1997; 20: 537-544.

Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina, NT, .

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