Results of a pilot diabetes prevention intervention in East Harlem, New York City: Project HEED.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our community-academic partnership employed community-based participatory research to develop and pilot a simple, peer-led intervention to promote weight loss, which can prevent diabetes and eliminate racial/ethnic disparities in incident diabetes among overweight adults with prediabetes.

Methods

We recruited overweight adults at community sites, performed oral glucose tolerance testing to identify persons with blood glucose levels in the prediabetes range, and randomized eligible people to a peer-led lifestyle intervention group or delayed intervention in 1 year. Outcomes, including weight, blood pressure, and health behaviors, were measured at baseline and 3, 6, and 12 months.

Results

More than half of those tested (56%, or 99 of 178) had prediabetes and

SUBMITTER: Parikh P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2837455 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature