Key result
A two-year school-based intervention links to positive cardiometabolic risk trends in youth with intellectual disabilities.
Why the study?
Cardiometabolic risk factors and cardiovascular fitness in young people with intellectual disabilities are important targets for interventions to reduce future cardiovascular disease risk.
Does a multifactorial school-based intervention improve cardiometabolic risk factors and cardiovascular fitness in students with intellectual disabilities?
Does a multifactorial school-based intervention improve cardiometabolic risk factors and cardiovascular fitness in students with intellectual disabilities?
A healthy school environment with daily physical activity and healthy food can contribute to decelerating fat mass gain and loss of cardiovascular fitness in students with intellectual disabilities.
May support school-based programs in this group; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
This study evaluates a multifactorial school-based intervention with the aim of decreasing cardiometabolic risk factors by means of a healthy lifestyle, primarily with daily physical activity and healthy food during school hours, at an upper secondary school for students with intellectual disabilities. The outcome is measured in terms of cardiometabolic risk factors and cardiovascular fitness, both known to increase the risk of future cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. Two years of intervention resulted in a positive trend in several measured cardiometabolic risk factors, with no increase in fat mass. Cardiovascular fitness levels were unchanged. We conclude that a healthy school environment can contribute to a deceleration of both fat mass gain and loss of cardiovascular fitness.
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Wallén et al. (2013) studied Intellectual disabilities. Multifactorial school-based intervention (daily physical activity and healthy food) was evaluated on Cardiometabolic risk factors and cardiovascular fitness. A two-year multifactorial school-based intervention in young people with intellectual disabilities resulted in a positive trend in cardiometabolic risk factors with no increase in fat mass.
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