Clinical study of the month. Prevention of type 2 diabetes in overweight patients with impaired glucose tolerance: efficiency of lifestyle changes
Scheen, A.J.
Revue medicale de Liege 56(6): 463-465
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0370-629X PMID: 11496729 Document Number: 526376
The "Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study" is a prospective controlled study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine which compared the risk of developing type 2 diabetes among 265 high-risk patients treated by changes in lifestyle to that of 257 matched controlled patients. This intervention trial demonstrated that the risk of type 2 diabetes could be reduced by 58% (p < 0.001) after a mean follow-up of 3.2 years with changes in lifestyle of high-risk overweight subjects with impaired glucose tolerance.