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IDF Consensus on Type 2 Diabetes Prevention [1]

Early intervention and the avoidance or delay of progression to type 2 diabetes is of enormous benefit to patients in terms of increasing life expectancy and quality of life, and potentially in economic terms for society and health-care payers.

To address the growing impact of type 2 diabetes, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Taskforce on Epidemiology and Prevention convened a consensus workshop in 2006. The resulting consensus paper was launched at the 2nd International Congress on Prediabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome [2] in Barcelona in April 2007 and published in the May 2007 issue of Diabetic Medicine. The primary goal of the workshop and the paper is the prevention of type 2 diabetes in both the developed and the developing world.

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Source URL: http://www.idf.org/diabetes-prevention?language=en

Links:
[1] http://www.idf.org/diabetes-prevention?language=en
[2] http://www.idf.org/events/index.cfm?id=191
[3] http://www.idf.org/diabetes-prevention/highlights-idf-consensus
[4] http://www.idf.org/webdata/docs/IDF_prevention_consensus_DM.pdf