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The research reviewed echoed the importance of lifestyle interventions in the prevention or delay of type 2 diabetes. The availability to programs geared toward lifestyle interventions should be a top priority for communities as it was shown in several studies that cost-effective, easily accessible programs with detailed group and individualized counseling increased adherence to such interventions thus reducing the risk of diabetes. Questionably, if patients with prediabetes maintained strict lifestyle modification interventions would the research indicating that metformin was more effective be overturned? Continued research would be needed to determine the relevance of this posed question. The health care team and researchers would need to promote programs as described above with continued support in order to determine whether or not strict lifestyle modifications interventions would outweigh metformin use over many