American journal of preventive medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Promoting healthy lifestyles in high school adolescents: a randomized controlled trial.
Although obesity and mental health disorders are two major public health problems in adolescents that affect academic performance, few rigorously designed experimental studies have been conducted in high schools. ⋯ COPE can improve short- and more long-term outcomes in high school teens.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
C-reactive protein levels in African Americans: a diet and lifestyle randomized community trial.
Chronic inflammation is linked to poor lifestyle behaviors and a variety of chronic diseases that are prevalent among African Americans, especially in the southeastern U.S. ⋯ In overweight/obese, but otherwise "healthy," African-American church members with very high baseline CRP levels, this intervention produced significant reductions in CRP at 3 and 12 months, and in waist-to-hip ratio, which is an important anthropometric predictor of overall risk of inflammation and downstream health effects.