Outcomes and Economic Benefits of Penn State Extension’s Dining With Diabetes Program

PEER REVIEWED

Of the 592 participants who had uncontrolled diabetes at baseline, 102 (17.2%) changed to controlled diabetes and 58 (9.8%) changed to prediabetes at follow-up.

Figure 1. Follow-up HbA_1c compared with baseline HbA_1c for participants with uncontrolled diabetes at baseline, Pennsylvania State University Extension’s Dining With Diabetes Program, October 2012–June 2015. Each point represents a study participant. Points below the diagonal line indicate a participant with a decrease in HbA_1c, whereas points above the line indicate a participant with an increase in HbA_1c. A point in the shaded areas indicates that a decrease was large enough to move the participant into a new, lower category of diabetes. The following categories of diabetes status were used: no diabetes (HbA_1c <5.7), prediabetes (HbA_1c 5.7–6.4), controlled diabetes (HbA_1c 6.5–7.0), and uncontrolled diabetes (HbA_1c >7.0).

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Figure 2. Number of participants in each diabetes category, determined by HbA_1c measurements, at baseline and follow-up, Pennsylvania State University Extension’s Dining With Diabetes Program, October 2012–June 2015. The following categories of diabetes status were used: no diabetes (HbA_1c <5.7), prediabetes (HbA_1c 5.7–6.4), controlled diabetes (HbA_1c 6.5–7.0), and uncontrolled diabetes (HbA_1c >7.0).

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