Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 65-66, June 2008

Preventing type 2 diabetes: Genes or lifestyle?

  • Mary Beth Weber

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. Tel.: +1 404 727 6949; fax: +1 404 727 3350.

Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Emory University, USA

Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, USA

Received 10 March 2008 published online 08 May 2008.

Abstract 

Type 2 diabetes is a complex, multi-factorial condition, caused by environment factors and an inheritance pattern that is polygenic. Preventing diabetes is a major clinical, research and public health priority. Lifestyle intervention studies, programs that promote changes in diet, activity, and behavior, have been shown to be effective ways to prevent type 2 diabetes, perhaps even in patients with genotypes that might put them at increased risk for developing the disease. Clinicians should be helping their patients to make positive lifestyle changes, and researchers must find ways to translate lifestyle interventions into real world settings in order to stop the epidemic of diabetes.

Keywords: Type 2 diabetes, Genetics, Lifestyle interventions

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PII: S1751-9918(08)00034-X

doi:10.1016/j.pcd.2008.03.005

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 65-66, June 2008

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