… controlled trial. This paper descriptively presents the baseline characteristics of trial children
… gender, cluster level socio-economic status, school size and time of recruitment into the trial. …

… of participants with a wide distribution of age, obesity, and ethnic and racial backgrounds who
… The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is a randomized clinical trial being conducted in …

… components incorporated in previous childhood obesity prevention trials (70 included studies
… Table 3 summarises the baseline characteristics. Although school characteristics were …

… trial of a novel school-based obesity prevention programme with English primary school
children. To present sample size estimates required for a definitive trial of the programme based …

… The K-DPP trial is the first diabetes prevention programme … rates of generalized obesity and
central obesity (defined using waist … in previous diabetes prevention trials conducted in Asian …

… Descriptive analyses to test for differences in baseline characteristics used linear mixed
modelling with maximum likelihood estimation to account for the nested and repeated nature of …

… Baseline characteristics for those pupils included in the analysis were similar for those from
the intervention and control … allocated to the control group were more likely at baseline to walk…

… (IFG), thereby preventing or delaying diabetes. The aim of this paper was to describe the
trial design and methods and baseline characteristics of participants and family volunteers. …

… group and control group for basic characteristics measured at T0 to … trial, conducted in
three culturally diverse urban cities in Massachusetts (25). This obesity prevention programme …

… trial, assess the relative validity of a food frequency questionnaire, and describe the baseline
characteristics of the … Thus, while the need for early childhood obesity prevention is widely …