People with prediabetes can benefit from an AI based diabetes prevention program, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Diabetes prevention programs or DPPs were developed by the CDC over a decade ago to help people with prediabetes avoid frank development of diabetes, but very few people access them. Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins and one developer of a new AI based DPP shown to be just as effective as those conducted by people, explains why.

Nestoras Mathioudakis: The CDC developed the national DPP in 2012 based off of this landmark diabetes prevention program but there have been so many barriers to translating the evidence of that original trial at scale. First there are just too few programs. There's one program per 63,000 US adults with prediabetes. There are a lot of scheduling constraints, we've got busy middle-aged and older adults with their lives fitting in a 12 month lifestyle change program that meets weekly is really challenging.     :29

Mathioudakis says avoiding the development of diabetes also staves off severe consequences of the condition like cardiovascular disease. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.