About - DPPOS
Learn more about the Diabetes Prevention Program and Outcomes Study:
Background
"Twenty years ago, many people assumed getting diabetes was just part of getting older and felt powerless to do anything about it. DPP changed that. It helped focus more attention on diabetes and, most importantly, proved that it is not inevitable. As we now know, type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed in many cases. DPP is is the largest and longest trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health that showed how we might actually reverse this worldwide epidemic," David Nathan, M.D.
Timeline
The DPP/DPPOS chronology is as follows:
| 1996-1999 | DPP screening and randomization. |
| 2001 | DPP stopped one-year ahead of schedule in 2001 on the advice of the Data Monitoring Board due to statistically significant and clinically compelling decrease in the development of diabetes in the lifestyle intervention and metformin-treated groups. |
| 2001-2002 | DPP Bridge: Metformin washout study and lifestyle training for all participants. |
| 2002 | DPPOS was funded for a five-year period ("DPPOS Phase I") with the understanding that completion of the originally-proposed 10-year study would require re-funding via competitive renewal. |
| 2004
| NIDDK administratively approved an additional year, recognizing that analysis of five-year data in a study of this size would require an additional year. |
| 2009 | NIDDK awarded funding for the second 5 years of the 11-year study ("DPPOS Phase 2"), based on a rigorous competitive renewal process. |
| 2011 | NIDDK administratively approved an additional year prior to submitting a non-competing continuation. |
| Oct 2013 | Scheduled end of DPPOS primary outcome assessments for Phase 2. |
| Jan 2015 | Scheduled end of DPPOS Phase 2 funding. |
| Feb 2015 | One year administrative extension to re-submit non-competing renewal |
| Oct 2015 | NIDDK approved funding for the first 5 years of the 10-year study (DPPOS Phase 3), based on a rigorous competitive renewal process |
| Feb 2016 | DPPOS Phase 3 funding began |
| Feb 2021 | DPPOS Phase 3 one-year extension funding began |
| Jan 2022 | Scheduled end of Phase 3 funding |
| Feb 2022 | No cost extension begins |