Rethinking the Goals of Diabetes Prevention Programs

Briana Mezuk¹, Julie Ober Allen^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI bmezuk@umich.edu.
² Department of Health and Exercise Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
³ Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Comment

Briana Mezuk et al. Diabetes Care. 2021 Nov.

. 2021 Nov;44(11):2457-2459.

doi: 10.2337/dci21-0038.

Briana Mezuk¹, Julie Ober Allen^{2

3}

¹ Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI bmezuk@umich.edu.
² Department of Health and Exercise Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
³ Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

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Patient-Centered Goal-Setting in the National Diabetes Prevention Program: A Pilot Study.
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