American journal of preventive medicine
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Recent evidence suggests that opening a grocery store in a food desert does not translate to better diet quality among community residents. ⋯ NCT00911885.
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Sex-specific prediabetes estimates are not available for older-adult Americans. ⋯ Given the large, growing prediabetes prevalence and its anticipated burden, older adults, especially women, are likely intervention targets.
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In 2012, CDC launched the first federally funded national mass media antismoking campaign. The Tips From Former Smokers (Tips) campaign resulted in a 12% relative increase in population-level quit attempts. ⋯ Tips was not only successful at reducing smoking-attributable morbidity and mortality but also was a highly cost-effective mass media intervention.
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends combined diet and physical activity promotion programs for people at increased risk of type 2 diabetes, as evidence continues to show that intensive lifestyle interventions are effective for overweight individuals with prediabetes. ⋯ Lifestyle intervention among people with prediabetes produces long-term societal benefits that exceed anticipated intervention costs, especially among prediabetes patients that meet the ADA and USPSTF screening guidelines.