Volume 10,Issue 4
With lifestyle changes, the incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and obesity has significantly increased, becoming major chronic diseases that seriously threaten the health of China’s residents. Both domestic and international guidelines and consensus exist regarding the diagnosis and management of this disease. In recent years, T2DM treatment has focused more on new tactics that lean towards a patient-centered comprehensive management approach, replacing the traditional glucose-centered approach. Additionally, an increasing amount of evidence in medicine suggests that the reversal of diabetes is possible. However, there is currently no expert consensus on the clinical management of T2DM combined with obesity reversal treatment. Therefore, experts and scholars in China with extensive experience in T2DM combined with obesity reversal treatment have been invited to develop this consensus. The content includes early identification and diagnosis of T2DM combined with obesity, definition and mechanisms of diabetes reversal, disease assessment and grading, staging of diabetes and goals of reversal, the 2+N reversal strategy, inpatient system treatment combined with comprehensive outpatient management (including weight control, precise nutrition, scientific exercise, glucose-lowering medication, psychological intervention, rehabilitation therapy, and remote follow-up through online platforms), and evaluation of post-reversal efficacy. The aim is to further improve the level of T2DM combined with obesity reversal diagnosis, treatment, and management in China, and to implement the Healthy China strategy.