What is it about?
This review and meta-analysis aim at updating a previous meta-analysis carried out by Waters et al. on the efficacy of interventions aimed at preventing childhood obesity and at identifying predictors of outcome. Seventy-two studies were meta-analysed. Interventions for childhood obesity prevention should include both diet and physical activity, be preferentially targeted towards school age children and involve both the school and family setting.
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Why is it important?
In the last decades, overweight and obesity have exponentially grown worldwide, in both genders and across all ethnicities, reaching epidemic proportions in adults but also in adolescents and children. Based on these evidences, the governments of several countries have implemented strategies to prevent childhood obesity through the promotion of healthy lifestyles in schools and primary care settings. The aims of the present study is to update the results of a previous meta-analysis by Waters et al., including both RCTs and non-randomized trials published up to June 2015.
Perspectives
Partecipanting in this study has been a great pleasure and a pleasant challenge. Meta-analysis are useful, but need to be updated often.
Sergio Cinocca
Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences - DIBINEM Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
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This page is a summary of: Effectiveness of educational and lifestyle interventions to prevent paediatric obesity: systematic review and meta-analyses of randomized and non-randomized controlled trials, Obesity Science & Practice, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/osp4.111.
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