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The Role of Exercise and Diet in Weight Loss in Obese Children

NCT00461994 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2007-04-18

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Summary

A 3-arms randomized prospective intervention study to determine the roles of exercise and/or diet on weight loss and weight maintenance in obese preadolescent children 6-11 year-old with BMI\> 95th percentile for age and gender. Children were randomly allocated into three groups. The first group underwent an exercise program, the second one underwent both an exercise program and a diet program and the third underwent a diet program alone.

The total duration of the intervention is 12 weeks followed by a period of 9 months of follow-up. The effects of the different intervention on weight loss and weight maintenance,body composition, on hormonal components that regulate the caloric balance, on metabolic profile and cardiovascular risk factors and on psychological parameters were also determined.

Conditions

  • Pediatric Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

diet

BEHAVIORAL

exercise

BEHAVIORAL

diet and exercise

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • D-Cure, Israel

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Soroka University Medical Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • Rabin Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Moshe Phillip, Prof, MD · Schneider Children Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
11 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-04-30
Completion
2006-12-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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