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D-CLIP Diabetes Program Yields Positive Results
Wed, 06 Jul 2011
Diabetes experts in India have revealed that trails of a new low-cost lifestyle intervention program designed to help to prevent diabetes have proved a success.

The Diabetes Community Lifestyle Improvement Program (D-CLIP), developed by experts from the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation in Chennai, Atlanta-based Emory University and funded by the International Diabetes Federation, has so far been conducted in three major cities - Karachi, Chennai and New Delhi.

In Chennai, 600 pre-diabetic overweight people aged between 20-65 were randomly selected for the trial. The participants were enrolled in six-month D-CLIP classes which focused on education on nutrition and healthy eating, understanding food labels, and physical activity, as well as weight loss .

Of the 200 people who completed the six-month course, doctors found that 83 per cent lost an average of 2.5kg. They also noted a marked improvement in blood glucose, serum cholesterol and blood pressure levels.

"We have always known that the right diet and exercise can improve health indices. But there has been no scientific community-based programme to quantify this," said Dr V Mohan , head of the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation .

K M Venkat Narayan , professor of medicine at the Rollins School of Public Health , Emory University, added: "We are half way there. If we are able to prove that such mass programmes are beneficial, then we should be able to introduce this as an effective model across Asia."
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