Intervention to Promote Weight Loss in Latinas At-risk for Diabetes

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The overarching goal of this project is to develop and test a behavioral intervention delivered by promotoras to help at-risk Latinas lose weight and prevent diabetes.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Temple University
• Treatments: Metformin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Female gender

• Latino ethnicity

• Spanish fluency

• Age ≥20 years

• BMI ≥25 kg/m2

• And "increased risk of diabetes" (ADA Diabetes Risk Score ≥4 as determine by 7-item questionnaire and hemoglobin A1C ≥ 5.6%)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hemoglobin A1C ≥ 6.5%

• Current or planned pregnancy during the study period

• Chronic conditions that could affect potential participants' ability to participate (osteoarthritis, heart disease, pulmonary disease requiring oxygen or daily bronchodilator use, and severe psychiatric disease)

• Medical comorbidities that could influence weight loss or weight gain (thyroid disease, cancer, and HIV)

• Medications that could affect weight or glucose metabolism (thiazide diuretics, β-blockers, and systemic glucocorticoids).