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Editorial
. 2008 Dec;32(12):1747-51.
doi: 10.1038/ijo.2008.165.

School-based obesity treatment and prevention programs: all in all, just another brick in the wall?

N Durant, M L Baskin, O Thomas, D B Allison
Editorial

School-based obesity treatment and prevention programs: all in all, just another brick in the wall?

N Durant et al. Int J Obes (Lond). 2008 Dec.

Abstract

In this issue of the International Journal of Obesity, Katz et al. report on a meta-analysis of school-based interventions (SBIs) for lessening overweight and obesity in children. A hard look at SBIs is certainly warranted and we applaud Katz et al. for undertaking the task. SBIs have been and remain among the most advocated of anti-obesity approaches and, at least as research projects, they have tended to be large expensive projects. Not surprisingly, evidence of the efficacy/ effectiveness of these SBIs has been variable, presumably as a result of the heterogeneity of approaches.

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Two distributions that have SMD of −0.29.
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