Cardiometabolic risk factor response to a lifestyle intervention: a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Strategies to increase adherence to national dietary and physical activity (PA) guidelines to improve the health in regions such as the Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) of the United States are needed. Here we explore the cardiometabolic responses to an education and behavior change intervention among overweight and obese adults that adapted the 2010 Dietary Guidelines (DG), with and without a PA component.

Methods

White and African American overweight and obese adults were randomized to a DG group (n=61) or a DG+PA group (n=60). Both groups received a 12-week dietary education and behavior change intervention, and the DG+PA group also received a PA education and behavior change intervention with a pedometer. Changes in individual risk factors (blood pressure, fastin

SUBMITTER: Harrington DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4442603 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature