Diabetes: Prevention - Slide 2

Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)

The DPP was a major clinical trial to determine whether diet and exercise or the oral diabetes drug metformin could prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.

DPP Research Group. N Engl J Med 2002, Vol.346, No. 6.

Note:

• The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) was a major clinical trial (1996 - 2001) sponsored by the National Institutes of Health to determine whether diet and exercise or the oral diabetes drug metformin could prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Reference

Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. N Engl J Med 2002, Vol.346, No. 6.

Revised September 2008