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Filter by:The purpose of this pilot study is to test the feasibility of a virtual intervention to prevent child obesity and cardiovascular disease in African American families.
Food insecurity is prevalent in the United States. Defined as unstable and inadequate access to food, food insecurity disproportionately affects low-income households, those with children and those with a Black or Hispanic head of household. Moreover, food insecurity is associated with childhood obesity, a relationship that is not well understood from a behavioral or biological perspective. This randomized controlled trial will take advantage of the natural onset of summertime food insecurity among school-age children, ages 8-12 years, to examine the biobehavioral mechanisms of food insecurity including diet quality, biomarkers of Metabolic Syndrome, inflammation, and stress, weight status, and measures of child mental health.
A 2-arm, parallel group, randomized controlled trial to evaluate overall differences in body mass index (BMI) trajectories over 6 months between 10-16-year-old children with obesity randomized to receive the wise social psychological interventions plus a usual care behavioral intervention for weight management compared to children randomized to receive additional education plus a usual care behavioral intervention.
The prevalence of liver steatosis, steatohepatitis, fibrosis, and hemosiderosis in overweight and obese US Military dependent pediatric patients using MR Elastography and Quantitative MRI
The purpose of the WWChild study is to determine the feasibility of assessing the potential impact of parents attendance at WW on their child's weight status and weight related behaviours. The feasibility study will randomly allocate 60 parent participants to either the WW programme (formally Weight Watchers) or to a control arm. Data will be collected from both parent and child at baseline and at three months to explore changes in weight status and weight related behaviours.
Obesity is a problem of ever-growing importance, especially in industrialized countries, both in adults and in the pediatric population. Children and obese adolescents, like adults, have an increased risk, compared with normal-weight peers, to develop metabolic syndrome and atherosclerotic disease, pathophysiological basis of cardiovascular events. Alteration of the elastic properties of the arteries has been described previously in obese children and adolescents and is considered an initial marker of atherosclerotic vascular damage. The determination of the indices of arterial stiffness (PWV, Pulse Wave Velocity; AI, Augmentation Index, SI, Stiffness Index) is possible through techniques currently used for the determination of vascular function even in children. Nuts and hazelnuts are rich in potentially beneficial substances including unsaturated fatty acids, especially omega-6 (present in both) and omega-3 (present only in nuts), Several clinical trials have already shown in adults a potential beneficial effect of the addition of different types of nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts, cashews, pistachios, etc.) on the characteristics of the metabolic syndrome also through their possible antioxidant effect and vasoactive. In children, some epidemiological studies have associated with a higher consumption of nuts reduced risk of hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity and fasting glucose. The study will be conducted with a randomized design with two arms in parallel with blinded operator. The main objective of this study is to assess the efficacy of 15 grams of nuts and 15 grams of nuts a day in addition to a low calorie diet on the content of erythrocyte membranes of alpha-linolenic acid three months after the beginning of the trial in a group of obese children. Secondary objectives are to evaluate the efficacy of walnuts and hazelnuts in improving the systolic and/or diastolic blood pressure values, lipid profile, glucose and fasting insulin, vascular function.
Providers are not opportunistic enough in addressing lifestyle habits of teens, and can benefit from appropriate tools to support their conversations with families as well as engage all family members in making changes. Since most teens with obesity do not meet minimum lifestyle recommendations, our team developed Conversation Cards for Adolescents (CCAs), a tool to help teens and providers communicate and set lifestyle goals together. In this study, the investigators will (i) observe if and how CCAs fit in a clinical setting for changing teen-provider interactions and teens's lifestyle habits, (ii) ask teens and providers for their thoughts on CCAs and how they are used, and (iii) determine preliminary impact of CCAs on teen behaviors and clinical factors. The investigators will do this with around 50 teens from a primary/secondary care clinic in Edmonton, Alberta. Teens will be randomized to one of two groups - one group will use CCAs in their appointment with their providers to set a goal for change, while the other will also set a goal for change, but without using CCAs. Results from this study will give us insight into how CCAs are best used in a clinical setting and will help us plan a future full-scale study.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential improvement of sleep quality in children who have residual obstructive sleep apnea, using either an orthodontic intervention or continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), versus no treatment.
Guidelines from the American Thoracic Society strongly recommend interval warm-up exercise before planned exercise to reduce exercise-induced bronchoconstriction severity. However, no empirical data on the effects of interval warm-up exercise on exercise-induced bronchoconstriction severity are available in obese asthmatic children, where excess fat exerts such an unfavorable burden on the respiratory system, particularly during exercise. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of interval warm-up exercise on exercise-induced bronchoconstriction severity in obese and nonobese asthmatic children. Our approach will be to investigate exercise tolerance, respiratory function, and exercise-induced bronchoconstriction severity and the effects of (1) 8x30sec interval warm-up & (2) pretreatment with a bronchodilator compared with a no-treatment control on exercise-induced bronchoconstriction severity in 8-12 yr, prepubescent, obese and nonobese asthmatic children. [Aim]: To investigate the effects of interval warm-up exercise on exercise-induced bronchoconstriction severity. [Hypothesis]: Interval warm-up exercise will reduce exercise-induced bronchoconstriction severity after an exercise challenge test to a similar extent as bronchodilator and better than control.
In the U.S., dietary fructose has increased in parallel with the increase in obesity and may promote the development of diabetes and other chronic diseases. The largest source of dietary fructose is sweetened beverages that are consumed by adolescents more than any other age group. This protocol will compare the rates of hepatic de novo lipogenesis (DNL), a process in the liver that changes sugar into fat, in two groups of obese adolescents - one with prediabetes and the other, metabolically healthy. Blood will be sampled before and hourly for 3 hours after the consumption of a fructose-containing beverage. We hypothesize that the pre-diabetic group will show greater DNL in response to fructose. This would support other evidence that increased fructose-induced hepatic DNL is an early mechanism linking dietary sugar to the adverse metabolic sequelae of obesity, including diabetes, fatty liver, dyslipidemia and coronary disease.