The first intervention that is required is really to identify those at highest risk, and that will require intervention at the community and primary care level, using methods that are simple. In other words, it will require, in any primary care practice, enabling a prevention practitioner, for instance, who could be a nurse, to identify those individuals and intervene with them with a shared decision-making set of targets for intervention. This means glucose control, obesity control, cholesterol control—all the risk factors with intervention and early diagnosis. This has been accomplished in other countries like Sweden, where the cost of diabetes care has been reduced by intervention early on.
On October 2nd, 2018. See this statement in context.