Collaboration Details

Title of Collaborative Activity:

Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS)

Description of Collaborative Activity:

The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) showed that lifestyle change or metformin delay the development of type 2 diabetes. The Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study is studying the long term effect of diet and exercise and the diabetes medication, metformin, on the delay of type 2 diabetes in participants of the DPP.

Type of Collaborative Activity:

Research Initiative

Year the Collaborative Activity Originated:

1994

NIH Participating Institutes/Centers/Office of the Director:

NCATS, NCMHD, NEI, NHLBI, NIA, NICHD, NIDDK

HHS Agency Collaborators on this Activity:

CDC, IHS