PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Aphrodite Papadakis
AU  - Elizabeth R. Pfoh
AU  - Bo Hu
AU  - Xiaobo Liu
AU  - Michael B. Rothberg
AU  - Anita D. Misra-Hebert
TI  - Shared Medical Appointments and Prediabetes: The Power of the Group
AID  - 10.1370/afm.2647
DP  - 2021 May 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 258--261
VI  - 19
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/19/3/258.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/19/3/258.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2021 May 01; 19
AB  - Shared medical appointments, which allow greater access to care and provide peer support, may be an effective treatment modality for prediabetes. We used a retrospective propensity-matched cohort analysis to compare patients attending a prediabetes shared medical appointment to usual care. Primary outcome was patient’s weight change over 24 months. Secondary outcomes included change in hemoglobin A1c, low density lipoprotein, and systolic blood pressure. The shared medical appointments group lost more weight (2.88 kg vs 1.29 kg, P = .003), and achieved greater reduction in hemoglobin A1c (−0.87% vs +0.87%, P = .001) and systolic blood pressure (−4.35 mmHg vs +0.52 mmHg, P = .044). The shared medical appointment model can be effective in treating prediabetes.