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Assessment of Child Anthropometry in a Large Epidemiologic Study
Published on: February 2, 2017
PRESTO--Prevention Study of Obesity: a project to prevent obesity during childhood and adolescence
Sabine Dämon1, Sabine Dietrich, Kurt Widhalm
1Division of Clinical Nutrition, Department of Paediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
The PRESTO project has been launched as a school-oriented pilot project. The aims were to influence nutrition, physical activity and health. The intervention was performed by a multiprofessional team and covered 11 nutrition and health-related sessions with 1 h per week in each class. The initial poor knowledge was improved significantly to the control group with better results in grammar schools compared to comprehensive schools. BMI was not improved in overweight children. However, this project could serve as a successful model in Austria.
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