Cardiovascular risk factors in multi-ethnic middle school students: the HEALTHY primary prevention trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to examine the effects of an integrated, multi-component, school-based intervention programme on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among a multi-ethnic cohort of middle school students.

Methods

HEALTHY was a cluster randomized, controlled, primary prevention trial. Middle school was the unit of randomization and intervention. Half of the schools were assigned to an intervention programme consisting of changes in the total school food environment and physical education classes, enhanced by educational outreach and behaviour change activities and promoted by a social marketing campaign consisting of reinforcing messages and images. Outcome data reported (anthropometrics, blood pressure and fasting lipid levels) were collected o

SUBMITTER: Willi SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3348358 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature