Lifestyle intervention in postmenopausal women: winning the game against diabetes.
Lifestyle intervention in postmenopausal women: winning the game against diabetes.
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绝经后妇女的生活方式干预:赢得对抗糖尿病的比赛。
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10.1097/gme.0b013e318221bafe
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2011
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Wellons,Melissa
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Wellons,Melissa
As the readers of Menopause are well aware, the United States is facing both an aging population and an obesity epidemic and the chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, that are associated with both. The US Census Bureau estimates that, by 2050, half of the number of women in the United States will be 45 years or older. 1 Based on projections of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2 a girl born in 2000, that is, our 50-year-old patient in 2050, has a 30% lifetime risk of developing diabetes if she is white. She has an approximately 50% risk if she is a minority. Kim et al's 3 research published in this month's Menopause on the relationship between menopause and diabetes development is thus a timely article on a pressing topic.Kim et al 3 performed subanalyses of data from the completed Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) trial. 4 The DPP was a 27-center randomized clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health to determine whether a lifestyle intervention and/or metformin could prevent the onset of diabetes in individuals at high risk for the disease. More than two thirds of the DPP study population were women, and almost half were from an ethnic minority group. The results of the trial were highly significant. Both metformin and lifestyle intervention reduced the rate of new onset diabetes during approximately 3 years of follow-up. In addition, lifestyle intervention proved better than metformin, and this superiority was driven by the lifestyle intervention's outstanding performance in participants older than age 45 years.