Decreasing Sedentary Behaviors in Youth to Prevent and Manage Childhood Obesity: Is It Realistic?

Purpose Of Review: Decreasing sedentary behaviors has been proposed as one approach to reduce the rate of obesity in youth. This review summarizes the contemporary literature examining the efficacy of these interventions in the school and community along with an additional focus on the role of socioeconomic status in these interventions.

Recent Findings: Studies that focus on decreasing sedentary behavior have utilized a wide variety of strategies in a number of settings.

Adherence to lipid-lowering therapy and reaching treatment goals in youth seen in a preventive cardiology clinic.

Introduction: The efficacy of lipid-lowering therapy in reducing cardiovascular disease in adults is well-established. Unfortunately, it is also well-established that adults have inadequate adherence to lipid-lowering therapy, which is associated with increased costs and mortality. However, the adherence patterns of youth prescribed lipid-lowering therapy is not well-described.

Improving Cardiovascular Health in a Pediatric Preventive Cardiology Practice.

Poor childhood cardiovascular health translates into poor adult cardiovascular health. We hypothesized care in a preventive cardiology clinic would improve cardiovascular health after lifestyle counseling. Over a median of 3.

The relationship between payer type and lipid outcomes in response to clinical lifestyle interventions in youth with dyslipidemia.

Background: Payer-type (government-sponsored health coverage versus private health insurance) has been shown to influence a variety of cardiovascular disease outcomes in adults. However, it is unclear if the payer-type impacts the response to a lifestyle intervention in children with dyslipidemia.

Methods: We analyzed data prospectively collected from patients under the age of 25 years who were referred to a large regional preventive cardiology clinic from 2010 to 2016 in Massachusetts.

A collaborative Alzheimer disease research exchange using a community-based Helpline as a recruitment tool.

Although barriers to research participation present challenges for researchers trying to recruit participants, community-based organizations typically have a relationship with and access to potential participants, but often lack information about local studies recruiting participants and/or specifics about studies, how to describe them and how to refer their clients to a study. Therefore, a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)model of collaboration may be a mutually advantageous option for recruiting participants to Alzheimer disease research. The broad goal of this study was to assess whether this void could be bridged and relationships developed between the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Indiana and researchers at the Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center, and improve flow of information to increase research participation to any or all of 4 projects recruiting research participants at the time.