Shared Medical Appointments and Prediabetes: The Power of the Group.

Shared medical appointments, which allow greater access to care and provide peer support, may be an effective treatment modality for prediabetes. We used a retrospective propensity-matched cohort analysis to compare patients attending a prediabetes shared medical appointment to usual care. Primary outcome was patient's weight change over 24 months. Secondary outcomes included change in hemoglobin A, low density lipoprotein, and systolic blood pressure. The shared medical appointments group lost more weight (2.88 kg vs 1.29 kg, = .003), and achieved greater reduction in hemoglobin A (-0.87% vs +0.87%, = .001) and systolic blood pressure (-4.35 mmHg vs +0.52 mmHg, = .044). The shared medical appointment model can be effective in treating prediabetes.