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Following a recent launch, Yumlish has found opportunity for growth via a new partnership with the American Diabetes Association (ADA). The deal will add the local startup to the seven already existent “delivery sites” of the National Diabetes Prevention Program’s (DPP) lifestyle change program.
Yumlish was founded by Shireen Abdullah, now CEO, in Dallas in 2019, following her victory at Health Wildcatters’ 2019 Texas Healthcare Challenge. She and her team offer nutritional therapy with registered dietitians with the intent to generate positive health outcomes for people with diabetes.
Yumlish provides individualized advice from culturally competent professionals, resources for members with lifestyles that make health prioritization difficult, and a community of people who can share in each other’s successes and challenges.
The National DPP, led by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), brings together public and private organizations in an effort to address increasing Type 2 diabetes in the United States.
By partnering with Yumlish, the initiative aims to gain access into the company’s expertise in cultural competence, health empowerment, and AI technology to increase the National DPP’s scope and impact.
The problem with diabetes that the partnership aims to tackle is large, growing, and complicated: Minorities are at the highest risk, and are often left without access to quality healthcare and education.
One third of American adults have diabetes or prediabetes, according to the ADA. And Hispanic and Latino populations are more than 50 percent more likely to have diabetes than non-Hispanic white people.
Luckily, 90 percent of Type 2 diabetes is preventable with lifestyle and dietary changes, according to Yumlish. However, of the 88 million Americans with prediabetes, 85 percent don’t know they have it.
In response, the National DPP uses research-backed, lifestyle modification programs that are proven to make a difference.
“Research shows that CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs can help people cut their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by more than half, proving that preventing or delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes is possible,” Dr. Robert Gabbay, chief scientific and medical officer for the ADA, said in a statement.
The National DPP has already proven its value to participant health. Some 34 percent of the participants of the year-long program experience a lowered rate of Type 2 diabetes ten years after having completed the program, increasing the quality of life of those people.
Now, Yumlish has the opportunity to bring its expertise to this already successful program.
“We look forward to Yumlish’s launch as a delivery site, as their virtual format and focus on social determinants of health will benefit participants by focusing on proven approaches to help people prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes,” said Dr. Gabbay.
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