TY - JOUR T1 - Interventions including diet and physical activity shown to be effective in preventing obesity in children: a Cochrane review JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 379 LP - 380 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318222 VL - 105 IS - 6 AU - Rakhee Shah AU - Ronny Cheung Y1 - 2020/12/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/105/6/379.abstract N2 - Review ofBrown T, Moore TH, Hooper L, et al. Interventions for preventing obesity in children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2019 Jul 23;(7). Study question: Are interventions that are designed to prevent being overweight or obese in childhood that include diet, or physical activity components, or both, effective in reducing BMI or zBMI? Design: Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) looking at interventions to prevent overweight and obesity in children (0–17 years). Data source: The following databases were searched; CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, PsychINFO and CINAHL in June 2015. Searches ran from June 2015 to January 2018 Study inclusion criteria: RCTs of diet or physical activity interventions, or combined diet and physical activity interventions, for preventing overweight or obesity in children (0–17 years) that reported outcomes (BMI and zBMI—a measure of BMI adjusted for age and sex) at a minimum of 12 weeks from baseline. The studies … ER -