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Tuesday 6 December 2016 12:56pm

An Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research (EDOR) prediabetes pilot project has won an Excellence in Innovation award at the recent Hawke's Bay District Health Board Health Awards.

The PIPI (prediabetes intervention package in primary care) project aimed to prevent the progression of prediabetes to diabetes, through a primary care based programme of wellness that encouraged and supported people to make healthy lifestyle choices.

Dr Kirsten Coppell, co-director of EDOR, led the PIPI Study which was based around identifying those at risk, encouraging weight loss, and offering continued support to these people in order to prevent diabetes, its complications and associated costs.

The PIPI Study was funded by the Ministry of Health, the Hawke's Bay Medical Research Foundation and the NZ Society for the Study of Diabetes. Dr Coppell has recently been awarded an HRC project grant that will seek to determine why some people with prediabetes are more successful in achieving normal blood glucose levels than others.

Read more about the Excellence in Innovation award

PIPI study wins Innovation Award, Otago Bulletin Board, Monday 5 December, 2017

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