Telephone lifestyle intervention to prevent diabetes in women with recent gestational diabetes mellitus attending the national health system: the LINDA-Brasil clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate a postpartum telephone-based lifestyle intervention to prevent diabetes in high-risk women with recent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).

Design

Multicentre parallel randomised clinical trial.

Setting

Specialised antenatal clinics in the Brazilian National System.

Methods

Lifestyle Intervention for Diabetes Prevention After Pregnancy compared (1:1) postpartum telephone support for lifestyle changes with conventional care in women with recent GDM at substantial risk for diabetes. Randomisation started on 28 March 2015 and ended on 13 March 2020, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We used Cox regression to estimate HRs for diabetes and analysis of covariance adjusted for follow-up time to assess weight change.

Outcomes

The pr

SUBMITTER: Schmidt MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11481157 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature