Look AHEAD: Action for Health in Diabetes
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Brief summary
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The Look AHEAD study is a multi-center, randomized clinical trial to examine the long-term effects of a lifestyle intervention designed to achieve and maintain weight loss. The study will investigate the effects of the intervention on heart attacks, stroke and cardiovascular-related death in individuals with type 2 diabetes who are also overweight or obese.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00017953
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 5,145 participants
Conditions and interventions
Interventions
- Lifestyle Intervention Behavioral
- Diabetes Support and Education Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 55 Years to 76 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 2001 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Sep 2012 (Actual)
- Completion
- Jun 30, 2020 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Aug 2, 2023
2001 – 2020
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 18
- U.S. states
- 15
- U.S. cities
- 17
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham | Alabama | 35205 | — |
| Southwestern American Indian Center | Phoenix | Arizona | 85014 | — |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles | California | 90022 | — |
| University of Colorado Health Sciences Center | Aurora | Colorado | 80045-0808 | — |
| Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge | Louisiana | 70808 | — |
| Johns Hopkins Pro-Health | Baltimore | Maryland | 21207 | — |
| Diabetes Center | Boston | Massachusetts | 02114 | — |
| Joslin Diabetes Center | Boston | Massachusetts | 02114 | — |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | Minnesota | 55415-1226 | — |
| Northern Navajo Medical Center | Shiprock | New Mexico | 87420 | — |
| Columbia University | New York | New York | 10019 | — |
| University of Pennsylvania Medical Center | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15213 | — |
| The Miriam Hospital | Providence | Rhode Island | 02906 | — |
| The University of Tennessee, Memphis | Memphis | Tennessee | 38105 | — |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
| University of Texas Health Sciences Center | San Antonio | Texas | 78229 | — |
| University of Washington | Seattle | Washington | 98108 | — |
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- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00017953, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Aug 2, 2023 · Synced Oct 23, 2026
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