Clinical trials confirm that type 2 diabetes is preventable

Clinical trials confirm that type 2 diabetes is preventable [1]

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 11:04

Until recently, randomized clinical trials offered only limited proof that Type 2 diabetes is preventable by changes in lifestyle. Fortunately, this gap has now been filled. Several major lifestyle intervention trials have been successfully completed. The results are consistent: the risk of Type 2 diabetes can be halved in people who are at high risk; the effect of lifestyle change is rapid; the lifestyle changes required to achieve a significant risk reduction do not have to be drastic; and benefits are similar in different ethnic groups.

Issue:

Volume 48 | Special Issue [2]

Author:

Tuomilehto Jaakko [3]

Lindström Jaana [4]

Attachment:

article_79_en.pdf [5]

Keywords:

Da-Qing Study, China, Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study, DPS, Diabetes Prevention Program, DPP

Section:

Health Delivery [6]

Theme:

Lifestyle interventions [7]

Prevention and screening [8]

Research and studies [9]

Type 2 diabetes [10]

Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) [11]