Diabetes prevention programs may be utilized more with an AI approach, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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People who have prediabetes frequently go on to develop diabetes, but diabetes prevention programs or DPPs can help. Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins and one developer of an AI based DPP, explains what’s at stake.

Nestoras Mathioudakis: Studies show that about 20 to 50% of people with prediabetes will go on to develop diabetes within the next five years. We're talking about 38% of the general population is almost 100 million and if even 20% of those go on to develop diabetes we're talking about a pretty big problem. The reality is that fewer than 1% of people with prediabetes ever participate in a DPP.    :23

Mathioudakis notes that weight loss is the number one strategy.

Nestoras Mathioudakis: Weight and obesity of course cause insulin resistance which is what's causing the prediabetes and weight loss is the single most effective way to reverse prediabetes.             :13

At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.