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Diabetes Prevention Program Fact Sheet

Diabetes Prevention Program Fact Sheet

Learn more about the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a major clinical trial aimed at discovering whether either diet and exercise or the oral diabetes drug metformin could prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT).

Diabetes Prevention Program Fact Sheet


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