Impact of the Group Lifestyle Balance (GLB) Program on Diabetes Prevention in the Military Health System

Abstract

In 2014, 29.1 million Americans suffered from diabetes mellitus (OM). Additionally, 89 million Americans were pre-diabetic, 90% of them unaware. Current treatment costs of OM are estimated in excess of $245 billion. The Diabetes Prevention Program (OPP) demonstrated lifestyle intervention programs were effective. The GLB program translated the OPP curriculum into a 12 week group instruction for at risk patients. We implemented the GLB in a military universal access setting in 2009 to reduce diabetes. We retrospectively evaluated clinical outcomes for patients in our GLB program from 2009 to 2013. Objectives included analyzing demographic attributes of program completers and changes in metabolic surrogates of disease prevalence. Conditions of interest were prediabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 20, 2016
Accession Number
AD1030620

Entities

People

  • Richard P. Davis

Organizations

  • 59th Medical Wing

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Active Duty
  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Biomedical Research
  • Body Weight
  • Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
  • Department Of Defense
  • Diabetes
  • Digital Information
  • Education
  • Instructions
  • Materials
  • Military Medicine
  • Prediabetes

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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