Trial reportPediatric obesity2012
Cardiovascular risk factors in multi-ethnic middle school students: the HEALTHY primary prevention trial.
Trial report in Pediatric obesity, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- The effectiveness of physical activity interventions on blood pressure in children and adolescents: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.Journal of sport and health science · 2024Pooled it
- School-based physical activity programs for promoting physical activity and fitness in children and adolescents aged 6 to 18.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Farm to School Activities and Student Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for preventing obesity in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Effect of educational interventions on health in childhood: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Are interventions to promote healthy eating equally effective for all? Systematic review of socioeconomic inequalities in impact.BMC public health · 2015Pooled it
- The WHO Health Promoting School framework for improving the health and well-being of students and their academic achievement.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- EFFECTIVENESS OF OBESITY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS BASED ON GUIDELINES FOR ADOLESCENT STUDENTS: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao PauloPooled it
- Novel measures of inflammation and insulin resistance are related to obesity and fitness in a diverse sample of 11-14 year olds: The HEALTHY Study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2016Trial
- Differential effects of dietary and physical activity interventions on adiposity of children with obesity.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2025Article
- Effects of multidisciplinary therapy on energy balance, inflammation, and metabolic diseases in adolescents with obesity: A narrative review.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Review
- Physiotherapy and related management for childhood obesity: A systematic scoping review.PloS one · 2021Article
- Effects of the application of a prolonged combined intervention on body composition in adolescents with obesity.Nutrition journal · 2020Article
- Long-term follow-up on biological risk factors, adiposity, and cardiorespiratory fitness development in a physical education intervention: a natural experiment (CHAMPS-study DK).BMC public health · 2018Article
- The Report Card on BMI Report Cards.Current obesity reports · 2017Review
- From Sea to Shining Sea and the Great Plains to Patagonia: A Review on Current Knowledge of Diabetes Mellitus in Hispanics/Latinos in the US and Latin America.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2017Review
- Body mass index: Has epidemiology started to break down causal contributions to health and disease?Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2016Review
- Childhood obesity, arterial stiffness, and prevalence and treatment of hypertension.Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine · 2014Article
- Effect of relative weight group change on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy derived lipoprotein particle size and concentrations among adolescents.The Journal of pediatrics · 2014Article
- Racial/ethnic differences in clinical and biochemical type 2 diabetes mellitus risk factors in children.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2013Article
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10 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveThe objective of this study was to examine the effects of an integrated, multi-component, school-based intervention programme on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among a multi-ethnic cohort of middle school students.
methodsHEALTHY was a cluster randomized, controlled, primary prevention trial. Middle school was the unit of randomization and intervention. Half of the schools were assigned to an intervention programme consisting of changes in the total school food environment and physical education classes, enhanced by educational outreach and behaviour change activities and promoted by a social marketing campaign consisting of reinforcing messages and images. Outcome data reported (anthropometrics, blood pressure and fasting lipid levels) were collected on a cohort of students enrolled at the start of 6th grade (∼11-12 years old) and followed to end of 8th grade (∼13-14 years old).
resultsForty-two middle schools were enrolled at seven field centres; 4363 students provided both informed consent and CVD data at baseline and end of study. The sample was 52.7% female, 54.5% Hispanic, 17.6% non-Hispanic Black, 19.4% non-Hispanic White and 8.5% other racial/ethnic combinations, and 49.6% were categorized as overweight or obese (body mass index ≥ 85th percentile) at baseline. A significant intervention effect was detected in the prevalence of hypertension in non-Hispanic Black and White males. The intervention produced no significant changes in lipid levels.
conclusionsThe prevalence of some CVD risk factors is high in minority middle school youth, particularly males. A multi-component, school-based programme achieved only modest reductions in these risk factors; however, promising findings occurred in non-Hispanic Black and White males with hypertension.
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