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Preventing diabetes: will NICE guidance do what it says on the tin?
Author(s) -
Deakin Trudi
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
practical diabetes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.205
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2047-2900
pISSN - 2047-2897
DOI - 10.1002/pdi.1703
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , impaired glucose tolerance , type 2 diabetes , insulin resistance , population , gerontology , disease , nice , demography , environmental health , endocrinology , computer science , programming language , sociology
The goal of the programme was to achieve a 7% reduc-tion in body weight and physical activity of moderateintensity for at least 150 minutes per week. The cumula-tive incidence of diabetes was 4.8, 7.8 and 11.0 cases per100 person-years in the lifestyle, metformin and controlgroups, respectively. This reduction in incidence equatedto one case of diabetes prevented for every seven peoplewith IGT treated for three years in the lifestyle interven-tion group, compared with 14 for the metformin group. In addition, a review has also indicated that the numbersneeded to treat (NNT) to prevent one case of type 2 dia-betes with lifestyle intervention in people at risk of diabetesis dramatically low at 6.4 (over 1.8 to 4.6 years).