The BONES Project: Building Healthy Bones in Children

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Conditions studied: Osteoporosis

In brief

The Beat Osteoporosis: Nourish and Exercise Skeletons (BONES) Project is an after-school program that includes weight loading physical activity, nutrition and bone health education, and calcium-rich snacks. The program is designed to improve bone health in early elementary school children.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00065247

Run by

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

People needed

1500

Starts

1999-06-01

Expected to finish

2004-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2005-06-24

Who can join

Age: 6 and older, up to 9. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Enrolled in participating after-school program
• Live in Massachusetts or Rhode Island

Where it is running

• Tufts University Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition, Science and Policy — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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