An intervention in middle schools lowered the obesity rate in students at highest risk for type 2 diabetes, those who started out overweight or obese in sixth grade, an NIH-funded study has found. However, schools that implemented the program did not differ from comparison schools in the study’s primary outcome — the prevalence of overweight and obesity combined — which had declined 4 percent in both groups of schools by the end of the three-year study.
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