Welcome
The over-arching mission of the Prevention & Control Core is to understand and reduce health disparities in type 2 diabetes and its complications by facilitating research in the following areas: (1) epidemiology, (2) health services research; (3) outcomes research; and (4) real-world trials of primary and secondary prevention.
The Prevention & Control Core objectives aim to assist investigators and health professionals interested in the entire range of natural history and in all 3 forms of prevention related to diabetes. Furthermore, our objectives support our commitment to investigating health disparities and to seeking clinical and public health remedies. More information about our conceptual framework can be found here.
This area of the Baltimore DRTC Prevention and Control website is dedicated to clinical investigators and health professionals. Find out how to best care for your patients with diabetes. Learn about local resources and events related to diabetes care. Investigators can access services provided by our faculty and locate colleagues with similar interests.- American Diabetes Assocation
- American Heart Association
- The Heart of Diabetes Program
- Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- National Cholesterol Education Program
- 10 Year Heart Attack Risk Calculator
- National Diabetes Education Program
- National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse
- University of Maryland Resources
- Joslin Diabetes Center
What's New!
Click here to find updates on what’s happening in the field of diabetes.DRTC Faculty Publish in Archives of Internal Medicine
Hopkins "Project Sugar 2" researchers publish a report of their work to develop a culturally tailored intervention to improve diabetes care for African American diabetes sufferers, who bear a disproportionate burden from the disease. more
Diabetes Case Shows Pitfalls of Treatment Rules
The New York Times reports that in 2008, a national guideline-setting group abruptly withdrew a controversial diabetes standard that called for aggressive control of blood sugar that it had adopted in 2006. This usually good medical advice can be dangerous to some patients. To many experts, the diabetes case shows how setting one guideline that works for all patients suffering from the same disease can be tricky. more
Prospective Investigation of Metabolic Characteristics in Relation to Weight Gain
New research contributes to our knowledge of the complex role of glucose in regulating long-term weight change. Results suggest that high-leptin concentrations and low-postchallenge glucose concentrations are important predictors of long-term weight gain. more
Prevention & Control Core Objectives
- Assemble a large, experienced, multi-disciplinary panel of investigators who are committed to the Core's mission. This panel includes nationally and internationally regarded experts in epidemiology, clinical trials, health services research, outcomes research, psychology, behavioral medicine, and public health. Many of the experts are themselves under-represented minorities.
- Prioritizing interdisciplinary and cross-campus collaboration
- Link closely with training and mentorship programs to development young talent
- Work with government (local, state, and US) and industry to develop new interventions
- Participate in technology transfer and multidisciplinary translational research to implement innovative diabetes prevention and control programs into everyday clinical practice
- Promote innovation and cross-fertilization by the following means:
- Constitute four P&C Sub-Cores to support the panel's research in the prevention & control of type 2 diabetes by providing timely, high-quality, well-managed services in these areas:
- Biostatistics - with particular attention to innovations in the analysis of longitudinal data, the conduct of effectiveness trials, and rapid literature synthesis.
- Data Management and Analysis - with particular attention to archiving and advancing expertise on the diverse epidemiologic and administrative databases available in Baltimore and providing quick turn-around for urgent requests on data management and analysis.
- Cognition & Behavior Science- with particular attention to the development of state-of-the-art behavioral interventions and high quality data acquisition.
- Recruitment & Retention — with particular attention to expanding communication with patients, their doctors, and their community; and to training non-professional staff involved in diabetes control and prevention.
- Informatics - with particular attention to utilizing Health Information Technology for primary and secondary prevention of diabetes, computer-guided diabetes management, patient telemonitoring, and clinical decision support.
