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While an estimated 38 million Americans have type 2 diabetes, the condition is increasingly being diagnosed in younger adults. Without treatment, they face decades of elevated risk for complications like heart disease and kidney failure.

A recent study published October 1 in the journal The Lancet Regional Health – Americas investigated whether a combination of intensive weight loss and structured exercise could put early-onset type 2 diabetes into remission.