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Following in the Footsteps of the North Karelia Project: Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes.

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The practical implementation of screening of individuals for high type 2 diabetes risk and prevention of type 2abetes in Finland at the population level is discussed and how they have contributed to European level initiatives is described.
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The prevalence as well as actual number of people with type 2 diabetes has been increasing in Finland during the past decades, in parallel with an increase in overweight and obesity. Besides obesity, population aging is among the main drivers of increasing numbers of diabetic patients. Type 2 diabetes brings along complications, most importantly cardiovascular diseases, and increasing type 2 diabetes prevalence has also been suggested to lead to a new upward turn in cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, it is important to implement activities to prevent type 2 diabetes. We present the trial evidence for the prevention of type 2 diabetes with emphasis on the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study findings. Furthermore, we discuss the practical implementation of screening of individuals for high type 2 diabetes risk and prevention of type 2 diabetes in Finland at the population level and describe how they have contributed to European level initiatives.

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Changes in lifestyle modestly reduce the estimated cardiovascular disease risk in one-year follow-up of the Finnish diabetes prevention program (FIN-D2D)

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed whether changes in self-rated physical activity and diet during a type 2 diabetes prevention program were associated with changes in estimated 10-year risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) events and mortality in people at high risk for T2D.
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International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids 2016 Debate: For Science-Based Dietary Guidelines on Fats, Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews Are Decisive

TL;DR: It is concluded that nutritional guidelines on fat need a proper scientific basis in which randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with clinical endpoints and their meta-analyses are essential and decisive.
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Effectiveness of a web-based real-life weight management program: Study design, methods, and participants' baseline characteristics

TL;DR: Insight is brought into how internet-based technologies can be implemented in the virtual management of obesity by presenting the design, methods and participants’ baseline characteristics in a real-lifeinternet-based weight management program.
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Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared a lifestyle intervention with metformin to prevent or delay the development of Type 2 diabetes in nondiabetic individuals. And they found that the lifestyle intervention was significantly more effective than the medication.
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Prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus by changes in lifestyle among subjects with impaired glucose tolerance.

TL;DR: Type 2 diabetes can be prevented by changes in the lifestyles of high-risk subjects by means of individualized counseling aimed at reducing weight, total intake of fat, and intake of saturated fat and increasing intake of fiber and physical activity.
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The Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study (DPS) Lifestyle intervention and 3-year results on diet and physical activity

TL;DR: The intensive lifestyle intervention produced long-term beneficial changes in diet, physical activity, and clinical and biochemical parameters and reduced diabetes risk.
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