Primary Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Through Nutritional Counseling

Primary prevention of type 2 diabetes through nutritional counseling.

P revious studies have reported convincing evidence that type 2 diabetes can be prevented by the adoption of a healthy lifestyle in overweight subjects with impaired glucose tolerance (1,2). Although intensive lifestyle intervention can result in significant improvements in a range of clinical and metabolic variables, it is uncertain whether nutritional intervention programs are feasible in the...

Primary Prevention of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus has exceeded 22million people in Europe and according to WHO, it will increase from 135 million in 1935 to 300 million in 2025. In 1989 Saint Vincent Declaration, elaborated by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) called all the European countries to take action aimed at reducing the prevalence of type 2diabetes mellitus and its complications on...

Primary Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes and Its Economic Implications

Diabetes is the single most important metabolic disease which causes death and disability world-wide. Global presence of type 2 diabetics in the year 2000 is 171 million which is likely to be 366 million in the year 2030. India has the highest prevalence of diabetics in the world with 32 million and expected to increase to 80 million by 2030 accounting for almost 1/6th of world diabetic populat...

Primary prevention of type 2 diabetes in high-risk populations.

Costs associated with the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the diabetes prevention program.

OBJECTIVE To describe the costs of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) interventions to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We describe the direct medical costs, direct nonmedical costs, and indirect costs of the placebo, metformin, and intensive lifestyle interventions over the 3-year study period of the DPP. Resource use and cost are summarized from the perspecti...