2025-01-23
Glucose Lowering through Weight management (GLoW): a randomised controlled trial of the clinical and cost effectiveness of a diabetes education and behavioural weight management programme vs a diabetes education programme in adults with a recent diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
2025-01-23 • Julia Mueller, Penny Breeze, Francesco Fusco, Stephen J. Sharp, Katharine Pidd, Alan Brennan, Andrew J. Hill, Stephen Morris, Carly A. Hughes, Sara...
Abstract Aims/hypothesis UK standard care for type 2 diabetes is structured diabetes education, with no effects on HbA 1c , small, short-term effects on weight and low uptake. We evaluated whether remotely delivered tailored diabetes education combined with commercial behavioural weight management is cost-effective compared with current standard care in helping people with type 2 diabetes to lower their blood glucose, lose weight, achieve remission and improve cardiovascular risk factors. Methods We conducted a pr…