The Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study (DPS)

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: Intensive lifestyle counselling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00518167

KTL151-6

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to clarify whether lifestyle intervention provided to people with high type 2 diabetes risk will lower the cumulative incidence of diabetes. Furthermore, the aim is to study the effect of lifestyle intervention on cardiovascular risk.

Enrollment: 522 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• impaired glucose tolerance (p-glucose 2 hours after a 75 g oral glucose load between 7.8 and 11.0 mmol/l)
• body mass index 25 or higher

Exclusion criteria

• diabetes (previous gestational diabetes accepted)
• other chronic disease rendering survival for 6 years
• condition or medication affecting glucose tolerance
• recent myocardial infarction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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522 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Intensive lifestyle intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intensive lifestyle counselling

2

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard counselling at baseline