Associations of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention in Type 2 Diabetes With Health Care Use, Spending, and Disability: An Ancillary Study of the Look AHEAD Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Intensive lifestyle interventions focused on diet and exercise can reduce weight and improve diabetes management. However, the long-term effects on health care use and spending are unclear, especially for public payers.

Objective

To estimate the association of effective intensive lifestyle intervention for weight loss with long-term health care use and Medicare spending.

Design, setting, and participants

This ancillary study used data from the Look AHEAD randomized clinical trial, which randomized participants with type 2 diabetes to an intensive lifestyle intervention or control group (ie, diabetes support and education), provided ongoing intervention from 2001 to 2012, and demonstrated improved diabetes management and reduced health care costs during the

SUBMITTER: Huckfeldt PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7686866 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature