The study protocol for the evaluation of school-based weight screening was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Cambridge Health Alliance.
Although the weight screening was not conducted in a private room as is preferable [ 7, 19], the creation of a private environment by measuring weight in a corner of the large school gymnasium seems to have provided adequate privacy for most students.
3) Plastic or light weight metal screening is unsuitable for plugging holes.
Subjects with type 2 diabetes, previous use of glucose-lowering medications for >3 months, or unstable body weight before screening were excluded.
For schools that conduct weight screening, it is essential that they also provide comfortable and private settings as well as education or counseling regarding healthy weight control practices.
Students could select more than one place where they thought that weight screening should be performed (Table 3).
Ikeda et al suggested weight screening should be conducted by school nurses (trained health professionals) in a caring and sensitive manner [ 15].
"But screening is important, and maintaining lower weight can help keep hormone levels lower".
First, although the survey was completed immediately after weight screening, the students were given height and weight information only, not their weight status category.
Patients on CDD who achieved a 5% weight loss at screening but did not achieve the 10% weight loss three months following screening were randomized to the LL or the LCHP diet but their data were omitted from this analysis.
