Healthy Living Partnership to Prevent Diabetes

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Prediabetes, Obesity

In brief

The Healthy Living Partnership to Prevent Diabetes (HELP PD) is a 300-participant randomized trial designed to test the effectiveness of a lay-health counselor led community-based diabetes prevention program in reducing blood glucose in people at risk for developing diabetes mellitus.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00631345

Run by

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

People needed

301

Starts

2007-08-01

Expected to finish

2015-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-02-05

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Able to read/understand English at or above a level sufficient to comprehend recruitment and intervention materials
• BMI greater than or equal to 25 kg/m2 but less than 40 kg/m2
• Fasting blood glucose 95-125 mg/dl (inclusive)
• Willingness to Accept Randomization

You may not qualify if…

• Currently involved in a supervised program for weight loss
• Clinical history of DM, or newly diagnosed DM at screening
• Clinical history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) occurring within the past 6 months, including myocardial infarction, angina, coronary revascularization, stroke, TIA, carotid revascularization, peripheral arterial disease, and congestive heart failure
• Uncontrolled high blood pressure: BP > 160/100
• Pregnancy, breast feeding, or planning pregnancy within 2 years
• Other chronic disease likely to limit lifespan to less than 2-3 years, including any cancer requiring treatment in past 5 years except non-melanoma skin cancer
• Chronic use of medicine known to significantly affect glucose metabolism, e.g., corticosteroids
• Conditions/criteria likely to interfere with participation and acceptance of randomized assignment, including the following: inability/unwillingness to give informed consent, another household member already randomized to HELP PD, major psychiatric or cognitive problems (schizophrenia, dementia, self-reported active illegal substance or alcohol abuse), and participation in another research study that would interfere with HELP PD

Where it is running

• Wake Forest University School of Medicine — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

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