How does AI stack up against human provided diabetes prevention programs? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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For people with the condition called prediabetes, prevention to full blown diabetes is key. Over a decade ago the CDC developed diabetes prevention programs or DPPs to help but very few people access them. Now a new AI based DPP developed by Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, may help.

Nestoras Mathioudakis:  This is to our knowledge the first randomized controlled trial to demonstrate that a fully automated AI based diabetes prevention program can help individuals with pre diabetes lower their risk of diabetes at a same, sort of the same level as a traditional human coach led diabetes prevention program.  And so that's a CDC recognized DPP. The study was designed for non inferiority and about 32% in both groups met the 12 month outcome.   :28

Mathioudakis notes that the AI based program develops personalized messaging to help people achieve their goals in preventing diabetes. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.