Evidence-based lifestyle interventions for obesity and Type 2 diabetes: The Look AHEAD intensive lifestyle intervention as exemplar

The majority of individuals with Type 2 diabetes (T2D) are overweight or obese, and this excess adiposity negatively impacts cardiovascular risk and contributes to challenges in disease management. Treatment of obesity by behavioral lifestyle intervention, within the context of diabetes, produces br...

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Published inThe American psychologist Vol. 71; no. 7; p. 614
Main Authors West, Delia Smith, Coulon, Sandra M, Monroe, Courtney M, Wilson, Dawn K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.10.2016
Subjects
Behavior Therapy - methods
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - etiology
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - prevention & control
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - psychology
Evidence-Based Medicine
Humans
Obesity - complications
Obesity - prevention & control
Obesity - psychology
Risk Reduction Behavior
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Summary:The majority of individuals with Type 2 diabetes (T2D) are overweight or obese, and this excess adiposity negatively impacts cardiovascular risk and contributes to challenges in disease management. Treatment of obesity by behavioral lifestyle intervention, within the context of diabetes, produces broad and clinically meaningful health improvements, and recent studies demonstrate long-term sustained weight management success with behavioral lifestyle interventions. Details of the Look AHEAD intensive lifestyle intervention are provided as an exemplar approach to the secondary prevention of T2D and obesity. The presence of behavior change expertise in the development and delivery of evidence-based behavioral weight control is discussed, and issues of adaptation and dissemination are raised, with a model to guide these important steps provided. (PsycINFO Database Record
ISSN:1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/a0040394