06.01.05
Nutrition 21, Inc., Purchase, NY, and the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Nation have initiated their collaboration to conduct the first Diachrome Physician Supervised Health Outcomes Initiative among Native Americans living with type 2 diabetes. The program will evaluate the health benefits and costs savings that can be achieved when Diachrome, a patented combination of Chromax chromium picolinate and biotin specifically formulated for people with type 2 diabetes, is used in clinical practice. The program will include 600 MHA tribal members diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but Nutrition 21 hopes to expand the Diachrome Physician Supervised Health Outcomes Initiative to include tribal healthcare leaders serving an estimated 38,000 Native Americans on four Indian Reservations in North and South Dakota later this year.
