Study Type
Observational
completed
The objectives of the DECCO study were:
- To better understand health problems such as high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol and triglyceride levels and an abnormal response to sugars, in children and adolescents who are overweight; and
- To learn more about why these health problems develop; and
- To learn how these health problems change when a child or adolescent is part of a program like “Shaping Up”; and
- To learn what causes these changes to occur in some individuals, and not in others.
Endpoints are not adjudicated.
Study Design
Observational study
NO. of Countries
1
NO. of Sites
1
NO. of Participants
300
Study Period
2010
Sponsor
PHRI
Katherine Morrison
Associate Senior Scientist
Katherine Morrison
Associate Senior Scientist
Katherine Morrison is Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, and a Principal Investigator for childhood risk factors research at PHRI. She has received various awards including the Excellence in Pediatric Research Award, and a Heart and Stroke Foundation Fellowship in Preventive Cardiology. Katherine is supported in her research by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Hamilton Academic Health Sciences Organization, and McMaster Children’s Hospital Foundation.
Sumathy Rangarajan
Program Director
Sumathy Rangarajan
Program Director
Sumathy Rangarajan has been Program Director, Global Health, since 2016, preceded by many years’ service at PHRI in other roles. She oversees the PURE study team, as well as the INVICTUS rheumatic AF treatment trial, the CANPWR pediatric weight management registry, and others.
She holds both a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master of Science degree from Pune University in India.
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