BACKGROUND Women with gestational diabetes (GDM) are at high risk of developing diabetes later in life. After a GDM diagnosis, women receive prenatal care to control their blood glucose levels via diet, physical activity and medications. Continuing such lifestyle skills into early motherhood may reduce the risk of diabetes in this high risk population. In the Gestational Diabetes' Effects on Mo...

ObjectiveTo explore the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a worksite diabetes prevention program – BeatDiabetesbased on plant-based diet encouragement physical activity.Study DesignA mixed methods pilot study using one group pretest-posttest design.Setting/ParticipantsUniversity employees.InterventionA 13-week group-based intervention adapted from Diabetes Prevention Program to emph...

151 T and defects in insulin secretion. Obesity is the major risk factor for the development of the condition and a number of studies— including the Diabetes Prevention Program, the Da Qing IGT and Diabetes Study, and the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study— have shown that lifestyle modification (diet and exercise) can significantly prevent the progression of glucose intolerance (prediabetes) to...

Respected on both sides of the Atlantic for questioning the tenets underlying the pathophysiology of diabetes and its complications, Trevor Orchard continues to influence the fields of epidemiology and medicine. With a self-effacing style that might be described as typically British, he remains provocative and prominent among the research community. An Englishman educated in Wales and living in...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between antidepressant medicine use and risk of developing diabetes during the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS DPP/DPPOS participants were assessed for diabetes every 6 months and for antidepressant use every 3 months in DPP and every 6 months in DPPOS for a median 10.0-ye...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate evidence from the medical literature that metformin is effective in preventing type 2 diabetes. DATA SOURCES Primary literature was accessed via a MEDLINE search (1966-December 2003) using the terms metformin, type 2 diabetes, and prevention. DATA SYNTHESIS Two studies evaluated metformin's potential to prevent type 2 diabetes, finding that metformin maintained or redu...

INTRODUCTION Prevention of diabetes in people at highest risk for developing the disease is an important public health opportunity, considering the disease's increasing prevalence, its devastating impact on health and its high economic cost, the availability of efficacious and cost-effective treatments to reduce complications, and recent evidence that it can be delayed or prevented with lifesty...

Janice C. Zgibor, RPh, PhD, and Thomas J. Songer, PhD, MSc Existing knowledge from the literature demonstrates that primary prevention of diabetes complications is possible. However, patient-, provider-, and health system-based barriers may prevent implementation of evidence-based practices. This article explores barriers to diabetes care that are external to the patient and that may require pa...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a literature review of community-based interventions intended to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Recently published findings about the potential to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes with intensive lifestyle interventions prompted a literature search for community-based diabetes prevention interventions. The literature review design was a searc...