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WATCH IT: a community based programme for obese children and adolescents
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- Clinical significance vs. statistical significance in childhood obesity weight management programmesPublished on: 22 March 2016
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Dear Editor,
Having developed a hospital-based multidisciplinary outpatient service for obese children (1), we read with interest the recent paper by Rudolf et al reporting early pilot data from the community-based “Watch It” programme (2). The authors report a significant mean reduction in Body Mass Index Standard Deviation Score (BMI SDS) of -0.07 in 48 children (mean age 12.2 years) enrolled into the programm...
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