The Louisiana (LA) Health Project

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Conditions studied: Childhood Obesity

In brief

There is a worldwide pandemic of obesity with far-reaching consequences for the health of our nation. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Prevention of obesity, especially in children, has been deemed by public health policy makers to be one of the most important objectives for our country.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00289315

Run by

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

People needed

2060

Starts

2005-08-01

Expected to finish

2009-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-07-10

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Being one of the LA GEAR UP middle schools or a feeder elementary school
• Having an enrollment of at least 100 students per school
• All students in grades 4-6 of participating schools

Where it is running

• Pennington Biomedical Research Center — Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

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