Description
Develop and evaluate a culturally and linguistically adapted, technology-supported lifestyle intervention for diabetes prevention among Spanish-speaking only or Spanish-language-dominant Mexican American adults who are overweight or obese and also have prediabetes and/or metabolic syndrome, which are known risk factors for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Clinician advisor is Bahar Aghighi, M.D., FACE.
Research Triangle International in North Carolina is the subaward institution, Megan Lewis, Ph.D., site PI.
Clinician advisor is Bahar Aghighi, M.D., FACE.
Research Triangle International in North Carolina is the subaward institution, Megan Lewis, Ph.D., site PI.
Funder
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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