Researchers hope to recruit 400 children from nurseries and other pre-five centres across Glasgow to take part in the 166,000 three-year study, called 'Randomised controlled trial of a nursery and home-based intervention for obesity prevention and cardiovascular risk factor reduction', funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
The study, based at the University of Glasgow, Yorkhill NHS Trust and Glasgow City Council, is designed to tackle the growing problem of inactivity in pre-school children, which is regarded as one of the 'ticking time bombs' for coronary heart disease in the future. It will examine the effect of improving activity levels in the nursery and home environment, and it is the first time a study has adopted this dual approach.
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