Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese adolescents aged 12 to 17 years.

CONCLUSIONS: We found low quality evidence that multidisciplinary interventions involving a combination of diet, physical activity and behavioural components reduce measures of BMI and moderate quality evidence that they reduce weight in overweight or obese adolescents, mainly when compared with no treatment or waiting list controls. Inconsistent results, risk of bias or indirectness of outcome measures used mean that the evidence should be interpreted with caution. We have identified a large number of ongoing trials (50) which we will include in future updates of this review.
PMID: 28639320 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - June 22, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Al-Khudairy L, Loveman E, Colquitt JL, Mead E, Johnson RE, Fraser H, Olajide J, Murphy M, Velho RM, O'Malley C, Azevedo LB, Ells LJ, Metzendorf MI, Rees K Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research