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Fig. 1 | Trials

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From: The effects of different doses of exercise on pancreatic β-cell function in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: study protocol for and rationale behind the “DOSE-EX” multi-arm parallel-group randomised clinical trial

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Flow of participants through the DOSE-EX study. HED, high exercise dose; MED, moderate exercise dose; DCON, dietary intervention; CON, control group. Steps 1, 2, and 3 refer to the recruitment procedure. Step 1 being the initial contact with possible participants, screening by phone and obtaining informed consent if inclusion criteria are met. In step 2, eligibility is assessed based on blood and urine samples and finally step 3 constitutes a medical examination (see text for details). If no exclusion criteria are identified the participant proceeds to baseline testing and randomisation. Participants are randomly allocated to HED, MED, DCON, or CON in a ratio of 1:1:1:1 stratified by sex

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