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Special Turku Atherosclerosis Risk Factor Intervention Project for Children (STRIP)

NCT00223600 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1062

Last updated 2006-09-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

1062 children at the age of 7 months and their families were randomized 1:1 in an intervention arm and a control arm. The intervention families has received child-oriented and individualized nutritional and life-style counseling that aims at decreasing child's exposure to the known environmental atherosclerosis risk factors. The controls children receive information as given at the well-baby clinics and in school health care of children and adolescents. The hypothesis is that the intervention children have healthier food habits and serum serum lipid and lipoprotein concentrations than the controls, fewer of them start smoking, and their physical activity level is higher than that of the controls.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nutritional and life style counseling

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Turku

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Olli G Simell, MD, PhD · University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Months
Max Age
7 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1990-05-31
Completion
2005-08-31

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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Diseases

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