Look AHEAD: Action for Health in Diabetes
Funded provided by NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE
AND KIDNEY DISEASES/NIH
October 2001-2012
The primary objective of the Look AHEAD: Action for Health in Diabetes study is to examine the long-term effects of an intensive lifestyle intervention program designed to achieve and maintain weight loss in overweight volunteers with type 2 diabetes. This group will be compared to a group of volunteers who are involved in diabetes support and education. The goal of the intervention program is to decrease the incidence of fatal and non-fatal heart attacks and strokes over an 11.5-year period in volunteers in the lifestyle intervention group compared with those in the support and education group. Currently, there are 342 volunteers enrolled in the program. The program is in its 4th year. |