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Evaluation of Three New Strategies to Fight Obesity in Families

NCT00769756 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 261

Last updated 2008-10-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Context: Endeavours to reduce overweight by calorie-restriction diets are often neither sufficient nor sustained. The growing obesity epidemic demands additional measures to enhance and sustain weight loss.

Objective: To evaluate three alternative weight-loss measures on top of a calorie-restriction diet.

Design, Setting, and Participants: Six-month randomized and controlled trial using a three-factorial design. The participants were 110 families with 142 obese parents and their 119 obese children.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Magdeburg

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Claus Luley, MD · University Magdeburg, Germany

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-04-30
Primary Completion
2007-04-30
Completion
2007-12-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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