2018
DOI: 10.1089/met.2017.0055
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The Effects of a Community-Based Lifestyle Intervention on Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components in Adolescents: Findings of a Decade Follow-Up

Abstract: The healthy lifestyle intervention reduced the risk of MetS in both genders in short and long term, but with different patterns and improved some of the MetS components.

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“…This finding emphasizes the need for ongoing support, long-term educational intervention to reduce fasting blood glucose level. Findings of the current study revealed that the three-month lifestyle intervention decreased the prevalence of MetS in both group, which are in line with Bright Bodies and other shortterm intervention studies [23,34,35].…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 91%
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“…This finding emphasizes the need for ongoing support, long-term educational intervention to reduce fasting blood glucose level. Findings of the current study revealed that the three-month lifestyle intervention decreased the prevalence of MetS in both group, which are in line with Bright Bodies and other shortterm intervention studies [23,34,35].…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 91%
“…The results of our study revealed that combination of different educational methods include face-toface education, pamphlet presentation, telephone text messaging, and educational films within 3 months were effective.Generally, the results of this study are consistent with Azizi and Amiri studies, which showed, healthy 6 lifestyle intervention reduce the risk of MetS in both genders in short term[16,23].A similar study from Thailand undertaken by Chaiyasoot et al showed that a 3 months' lifestyle educational intervention in adults with obesity and metabolic syndrome resulted in in significant reduction in weight, waist circumference, blood pressure, and lipid profile [24]. Our Findings reflects that lifestyle intervention has modest efficacy in reducing weight.…”
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“…However, this effect was not maintained in the long run (wave 4 and wave 5) 37 . Moreover, our recent study in the adolescent participants of the TLGS, showed that the lifestyle intervention prevented metabolic syndrome in a short time (wave 2) but not in long-term (wave 4) 36 . There is limited evidence about the long-term effects of a community-wide lifestyle intervention program on the incidence of T2D or the prevalence of its risk factors.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Details of the lifestyle intervention have been reported previously 17 , 30 , 36 – 38 ; briefly, the lifestyle intervention design was adapted from the North Karelia project 39 , 40 and using American Heart Association guidelines. For this purpose, findings of the need assessments and Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) studies in the TLGS communities were also used 41 , 42 .…”
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confidence: 99%
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