Participation and weight loss in online National Diabetes Prevention Programs: a comparison of age and gender subgroups.

Katherine A Sauder^1,2, Natalie D Ritchie^3,4, Byron Crowe^5,6, Edith Cox⁵, Marissa Hudson⁵, Sandeep Wadhwa^5,7

¹Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes Center, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, 12474 E 19th Avenue F426, Aurora, CO, USA.

²Department of Pediatrics-Nutrition, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.

³Center for Health Systems Research, Office of Research, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, CO, USA.

⁴Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.

⁵Solera Health, Inc., Phoenix, AZ, USA.

⁶Department of Medicine-Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.

⁷Department of Medicine-Geriatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.

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Abstract

Early onset diabetes has adverse transgenerational effects, yet in-person National Diabetes Prevention Programs (NDPPs) have low reach among adults of peak reproductive age. We examined participation and weight loss with online NDPPs for younger versus older adults. Solera Health, Inc., collected data from 12,966 adults who enrolled in a yearlong online NDPP from 2015 to 2018. We used general line…

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