Preventing Diabetes in Latino Youth
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Gabriel Shaibi
Colleen Keller, PhD, RN-C, FNP, FAHA, FAAN (Co-I); Felipe González Castro, PhD (Co-I)
NIH/ National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, R01 DK107579
The study will test the effectiveness of a year-long, culturally-grounded, lifestyle intervention program for reducing diabetes risk in obese Latino adolescents with prediabetic diagnosis and plans to enroll 120 adolescents to be randomly assigned to a community-based diabetes prevention program or a usual care control group.