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Remote Lifestyle Counseling Influences Cardiovascular Health Outcomes In Youth With Overweight Or Obesity And Congenital Heart Disease, Luis Altamirano-Diaz, Meghan Rombeek, Stefanie De Jesus, Eva Welisch, Harry Prapavessis, Adam A Dempsey, Douglas Fraser, Michael R Miller, Kambiz Norozi
Remote Lifestyle Counseling Influences Cardiovascular Health Outcomes In Youth With Overweight Or Obesity And Congenital Heart Disease, Luis Altamirano-Diaz, Meghan Rombeek, Stefanie De Jesus, Eva Welisch, Harry Prapavessis, Adam A Dempsey, Douglas Fraser, Michael R Miller, Kambiz Norozi
Paediatrics Publications
Background: Children with overweight/obesity and congenital heart disease (CHD) are at increased cardiovascular risk. A lifestyle intervention may help reduce these risks. We sought to determine the feasibility of a smartphone-based lifestyle intervention to improve cardiovascular health outcomes in children with overweight/obesity and CHD.
Methods: We examined the effect of bi-weekly nutrition and fitness counseling delivered
Results: Statistically significant decreases in waist circumference (WC), body mass index
Conclusion: The observed changes in anthropometry were positive with significant improvement to some cardiovascular and metabolic risk indicators. However, this was only observed in the operated group suggesting that other factors, such as …