Research Progress on Non-Drug Treatment for Blood Glucose Control of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Overview

Journal Chin J Integr Med

Date 2018 Jul 27

PMID 30046957

Citations 14

Authors

Jun-Ping Wei

Qiu-Hong Wang

Hui-Juan Zheng

Fan Wei

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Abstract

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the common endocrinology diseases that greatly affects the health care sector and economy. Application of hypoglycemic drugs has its own drawbacks and the use of non-drug therapy on treating T2DM has drawn much attention recently. This paper reviewed the research development of the non-pharmacological interventions on T2DM in recent years, including dietary therapy, exercise therapy, psychotherapy, acupuncture and moxibustion therapies and so on. The authors mentioned the problems in the research of non-drug treatment for blood glucose control of T2DM and put forward new ideas for the research in the future. Further well-designed trials with large sample size and long-term follow-up are needed to confirm current conclusions.

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