from Perspectives in Health Information Management
Does this comment sound familiar, “Oh yeah, my family has diabetes. I’m going to get it eventually.” But that fatalism does not have to be. Not at all, says Adam Baus, assistant professor in the West Virginia University School of Public Health. His research, published in Perspectives in Health Information Management, shows taking part in a one-year diabetes prevention program supports an additional four years of quality-adjusted life. Participants lost weight—an average of more than thirteen pounds. The benefits from the one-year diabetes prevention program could be immense, since the CDC estimates more than thirty million of us have diabetes while another eighty-eight million have pre-diabetes.