Patients referred to the NHS’s national diabetes prevention programme in England have seen improvements in key cardiovascular risk factors including reductions in blood glucose levels and body weight, a study1 published in Nature has reported.
US researchers said their evaluation of the scheme offered causal evidence that behaviour change programmes are a viable prevention strategy for type 2 diabetes.
Lead author Pascal Geldsetzer told The BMJ, “We find that intensive lifestyle counselling for prediabetes, when implemented at scale in routine care, has beneficial effects on health measures that we know are important for cardiometabolic health. This is important evidence for health systems and clinicians because it implies that counselling by itself can be effective, at least in the short to medium term, if done intensively and …
