Trial reportBMC pediatrics2014
A randomized controlled trial on a multicomponent intervention for overweight school-aged children - Copenhagen, Denmark.
Trial report in BMC pediatrics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01660789 ("Fit For Kids" Copenhagen - an Interventions Study on Obesity and Physical Inactivity in Children.), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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"Fit For Kids" Copenhagen - an Interventions Study on Obesity and Physical Inactivity in Children.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Characteristics of Multicomponent Interventions to Treat Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Extremely Cold Climates: A Systematic Review of a Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Interventions for preventing obesity in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese children from the age of 6 to 11 years.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Pediatric Obesity-Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2017 · on this mapGuideline
- Cardiometabolic outcome of MyBFF@school intervention program among primary schoolchildren: a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Association of 25(OH)D with general and abdominal obesity among children and adolescents in the United States: a cross-sectional NHANES analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Impact of exercise on cardiovascular disease risk in overweight or obese children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Diagnosis accuracy of waist-to-height ratio to predict cardiometabolic risk in children with obesity.Pediatric research · 2023Observational
- Perceived Difficulties in Physical Tasks and Physical Fitness in Treatment- and Non-Treatment-Seeking Youths with Obesity.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Relations Between BMI Trajectories and Habitual Physical Activity Measured by a Smartwatch in the Electronic Cohort of the Framingham Heart Study: Cohort Study.JMIR cardio · 2022Article
- Effect of individual- versus collective-based nutritional-lifestyle intervention on the atherogenic index of plasma in children with obesity: a randomized trial.Nutrition & metabolism · 2021Article
- A 2 year physical activity and dietary intervention attenuates the increase in insulin resistance in a general population of children: the PANIC study.Diabetologia · 2020Article
- Relative Accuracy of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis for Assessing Body Composition in Children With Severe Obesity.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2020Article
- Clinical and metabolic effect of a multidisciplinary intervention through a comprehensive care program for children and adolescents with obesityBiomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2020Observational
- Home-Based Interventions to Treat and Prevent Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Change in Metabolic Profile after 1-Year Nutritional-Behavioral Intervention in Obese Children.Nutrients · 2015Article
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundObesity amongst children is a growing problem worldwide. In contrast to adults, little is known on the effects of controlled weight loss on components of the metabolic syndrome in children. The primary aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of a 20-week exercise and diet guidance intervention on body mass index (BMI) in a group of overweight children. Our hypothesis was an observed reduction in BMI and secondarily in body fat content, insulin insensitivity, and other components of the metabolic syndrome in the intervention group.
methodsSchool children from Copenhagen were randomly allocated to an intervention group (n = 19) or a control group (n = 19). Anthropometric assessment, whole body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan, two hours oral glucose tolerance test, steps measured by pedometer, and fitness tests were measured at baseline and at 20 weeks.
resultsThirty-seven children (30 girls) participated at baseline, aged 8.7 ± 0.9 years with a BMI of 21.8 ± 3.7 kg/m2 (mean ± SD), and 36 children completed the study. The intervention group decreased their BMI (the intervention effect is the difference in change between the groups adjusted for the respective baseline values (DELTA) = -2.0 kg/m2, 95% CI: -2.5; -1.5, P <0.001), total body mass (DELTA = -4.0 kg, 95% CI: -4.9; -3.0, P <0.001), and fat mass (DELTA = -3.3 kg, 95% CI: -4.2; -2.7, P <0.001) compared to the control group after the intervention. The intervention group displayed decreased waist, hip and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) (all three variables; P <0.001), area under curve for plasma insulin (P <0.05), and increased mean and minimum steps/day (P <0.05 and P <0.01, respectively).
conclusionsThe multicomponent intervention had significant favorable effects on BMI, weight, WHtR, mean and minimum steps/day, and fat mass. In addition, similar beneficial metabolic effects were found in the children as shown in adults, e.g. increase in peripheral insulin sensitivity.
trial registrationClinicaltrials.gov Identifier number NCT01660789.
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