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CDC Awards $4.2 Million for Diabetes Care Research — March 1, 2004
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded $4.2 million to fund a new five-year study to look at outcomes of diabetes care within managed care settings.
The six recipients of the first-year funding and the amounts awarded to each are:
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor –; $851,465
- University of Medicine & Dentistry of – New Jersey, Newark, N.J. - $832,652
- University of California, Los Angeles – $650,000
- Pacific Health Research Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii – $649,453
- Kaiser Research Foundation Institute, Oakland, Calif. – $646,434
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis – $625,876
CDC first funded the project – Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) – in 1998 to assess the quality of diabetes care and identify the factors that affect quality and outcomes of care. This new TRIAD study continues those objectives and expands the project to examine changes in quality of care during the past five years.
“These six institutions will help us identify interventions that can help people at high risk for diabetes to take the right steps to prevent the disease,” Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said. “One objective of the new TRIAD study will focus on preventing diabetes by developing ways to identify people who don’t have diabetes yet, but are at high risk for developing the disease.”
TRIAD is the largest multicenter study of diabetes and factors affecting quality of care and quality of life for people with diabetes. TRIAD includes about 12,000 patients, who represent a wide cross-section of the U.S. population in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors. The project involves 10 U.S. health plans, 66 provider groups, and is a collaborative effort with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA has conducted a similar TRIAD-VA study.
“Numerous studies have shown that diabetes care is often less than optimal. TRIAD uses knowledge and science to bridge the gap between research and practice to improve the level of diabetes care,” said Dr. Frank Vinicor, director of CDC’s diabetes division.
Currently about 18.2 million people in the United States have diabetes.
Most (90 percent to 95 percent) have type 2 diabetes, which is
associated with older age, obesity and physical inactivity. It’s
projected that 1 in 3 Americans will develop diabetes during their
lifetime. For more information about diabetes and other projects
such as TRIAD, visit CDC’s Website: http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes
or call toll free: 1–800–CDC–INFO
1-888-232-6348 TTY (232–3422).
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