In people with a recent diagnosis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and no prior cardiovascular disease (CVD), self-reported physical activity was independently associated with major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and mortality, new research showed.

“A single question about physical activity could serve as an accessible tool for clinicians to identify patients at higher CVD risk, complementing, but not replacing, existing biomarker-based strategies. The protective association observed even at light physical activity levels further emphasizes that avoiding a sedentary lifestyle has substantial health benefits in this high-risk population,” study author Line Bruun Eriksen, a master’s student in medicine at the Steno Diabetes Centre at Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, told Medscape Medica

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