Diabetes In Elderly Interventions

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The Look Ahead Trial: Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes Patients

One of the biggest and most important diabetes trials is well underway. But so far it hasn't received much attention. That will change.

The Look AHEAD trial began in 2001 and is scheduled to conclude in 2012. In it they randomly assigned 5,145 overweight people with type 2 diabetes to either a lifestyle intervention or to enhanced diabetes support and education.

AHEAD is shorthand for Action for Health and Diabetes. We sure like catchy acronyms, don't we!

What they are trying to do is to get the...
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