Is BMI alone a sufficient outcome to evaluate interventions for child obesity?
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Kolotourou, MariaRadley, Duncan
Chadwick, Paul
Smith, Lindsey
Orfanos, Stravos
Kapetanakis, Venediktos
Singhal, Atul
Cole, Tim J.
Sacher, Paul M.
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2013-08
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BMI is often used to evaluate the effectiveness of childhood obesity interventions, but such interventions may have additional benefits independent of effects on adiposity. We investigated whether benefits to health outcomes following the Mind, Exercise, Nutrition.Do It! (MEND) childhood obesity intervention were independent of or associated with changes in zBMI.Journal
Childhood ObesityDOI
10.1089/chi.2013.0019Type
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10.1089/chi.2013.0019