(Cost-)Effectiveness of SLIMMER Diabetes Prevention Intervention (SLIMMER)
Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 focused on measuring Prevention, Combined lifestyle intervention, Primary health care
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 40-70 years
Impaired fasting glucose (IFG; i.e. venous plasma glucose concentration ≥6.1 and
≤6.9 mmol/l) during the past 5 years, according to the GP registration database OR diabetes risk score ≥7 as calculated from the Diabetes Risk Test
- Willing and able to participate in the intervention for at least 1.5 years
- Dutch speaking
Exclusion Criteria:
- Known diabetes mellitus
- Any chronic illness that makes 1.5-years survival improbable, interferes with glucose tolerance, or makes participation in a lifestyle intervention impossible
- Patients with any severe cardiovascular disease (this also includes history of cardiac dysrhythmia), unless GP gives agreement
- Medication known to interfere with glucose tolerance
- Any mental or physical disability that will hinder participation in the lifestyle intervention
- Severe psychiatric disease
- Patients who showed bad compliance in the past
Participation in another regular vigorous exercise and/or diet programme, i.e.:
- Intensive exercise programme: any exercise programme offered by a physiotherapist and/or patients sporting at least 3 times a week at their own initiative.
- Intensive diet programme: patients who visited a dietician at least 3 times during the last year.
Sites / Locations
- Wageningen University
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Other
Combined lifestyle intervention
Usual care group
Lifestyle counselling (nutrition and physical activity) by dietician and physiotherapist during 10-month intervention period
Subjects receive brochures on healthy lifestyle at baseline, and during the 10-month intervention period only usual care as provided by their own general practitioner.