Primary Recipient

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

Amount

$598,465.00

Award Date

9/29/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Look AHEAD is a multi-center randomized clinical trial to determine the long-term impact of weight loss on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in over 5000 overweight individuals with type 2 diabetes. Participants were randomly assigned to an intensiv