This is important to elucidate at a time when many health care systems are introducing national screening programs (16), which may lead to an increase in the numbers of patients with newly diagnosed diabetes.
Using data from the ADDITION- Cambridge study, a cluster randomized trial in patients with screen detected diabetes, we examined changes in physical activity, diet, and alcohol consumption in the year after diabetes diagnosis, and their association with CVD outcomes using 5- year follow-up data.