Type 2 Diabetes Prevention

It will be selected 1274 subject older than 40 years of the population of Cabra in order to realize a sociodemographic and habits (toxic, food, of physical activity) survey. It will be realized a physical exploration including anthropometry, blood pressure, oral glucose tolerance test, blood extractions (basal and after 120 ' of the OGTT). Several biochemical determinations will be realized (p.e. marker of fat intake and marker of inflammation) The proposed intervention consists of a series of clinical visits and phone calls programmed with the aim to change the dietetic and physical activity habits of people. The Pizarra study (financed with other grants and realised with the same methodology) will be use as cohort control. Though the basic aim of the project is to achieve a reduction of the of diabetes incidence with a hygienic - sanitary intervention, the ambition of knowing the major number of possible factors that can participate in this process constitutes a complex project capable of analyzing the problem from diverse points of view. Endocrinologists (of two Andalusian hospitals), clinical biochemists, geneticists and dietitians they join in this project to approach an integral way the etiopathogeny of the diabetes type 2.