In a recent article by Lucy Candib, MD, “Obesity and diabetes in vulnerable populations: reflection on proximal and distal causes” (Ann Fam Med.2007;5[6]:547–556), the Diabetes Prevention Project at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was mistakenly identified as available to clinicians for further involvement in diabetes-related research. There is no such group at the CDC. Clinicians may gain insight about the complexities of diabetes from the Diabetes Prevention Program (mostly completed, an intervention trial run jointly between the CDC and NIH), and from the contributions of the Syndemics Prevention Network. The author regrets the error and any confusion it may have caused.
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