Stockholm Diabetesprevention Program (SDPP)

The objective of SDPP is to study the importance of hereditary, individual and environmental determinants of impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes and related morbidity like obesity and high blood pressure as well as consequences. Stockholm Diabetes Prevention Programme is a population based survey in which 3128 men and 4821 women (between the ages 35-56) from five municipalities of Stockholm County Council were screened between the years 1992-1998. A follow up study was conducted about 10 years later where 76,2 percentage of the men and 69,1 percentage of women responded. 2014 about 20 years after the baseline a new follow up study started and all participants from the baseline were invited. For the participants a screening occasion includes an oral glucose tolerance test and an extensive questionnaire. The study is focusing on diabetes heredity and therefore includes all individuals with at least one first, or two second grade relatives with diabetes. Those without any diabetes in the family are also over-sampled.