And good disease management could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 21%

Preventing high blood glucose (pre-diabetes) from turning into type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes could more than halve the carbon footprint associated with treating the complications of the disease, suggests a modelling study, published in the open access journal BMJ Open.

And effective management of the disease could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 21%, the calculations indicate.

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