Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to prevent childhood obesity with early life (pregnancy) intensified counselling. The recruited intervention group is pregnant mothers who are at risk to get gestational diabetes. Lifestyle intervention (nutritional and physical activity) begins during pregnancy in maternity clinics and continues in child wellfare clinics until the child is 5 years of age.

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NCT number	NCT00970710
Study type	Interventional
Source	University of Tampere
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Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	January 1, 2009
Completion date	January 31, 2017

Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study — VACOPP

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