What is
diabetes?
Diabetes causes too much sugar in the blood. It can lead to blindness,
amputations, kidney failure and heart attacks. Diabetes affects people of
all backgrounds, but is more common in overweight and older people, and in
certain ethnic groups, including:
What is the Diabetes Prevention
Program?
The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is a nationwide research study
looking at ways people like you can avoid getting diabetes. The study is
sponsored by the Federal government's National Institutes of Health.
Right now there is no cure for diabetes. But doctors believe that diabetes may be avoided by eating healthy food, exercising more, or taking pills. We are looking for volunteers to help find out if this is true.
Who can join?
Men and women age 25 or older who are likely to get diabetes.
What will I be asked to
do?
If you join the study, you may be asked to:
How may I benefit?
How can I join?
To join the University of Washington Diabetes
Prevention Program, please
call us at
206-764-2768.
Assess your own risk of diabetes by completing our Diabetes Risk Analysis.
Return to the University of Washington DPP
Homepage.