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Jill P. Crandall, M.D., works to prevent diabetes and its complications.
“Perhaps most important, we’ll find out whether the DPP interventions help reduce diabetic complications.”
The findings from the current phase of DPPOS are expected in 2015. “We assume and hope that the program will produce long-term benefits, but we don’t know for sure,” says Dr. Crandall, who is also an attending physician in endocrinology at Montefiore Medical Center.
As your weight (expressed here as body mass index, or BMI) rises, so does your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This illustration, based on the landmark Nurses’ Health Study, shows that even a woman of average weight (BMI = 24) has about a five-fold higher risk of developing diabetes than a woman with a BMI of 22 or less. Other studies show a similar risk for men and for adolescents of both sexes. (Visit http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/ to learn your BMI.)