Association of nutrition education and exercise with cardiometabolic health risk factors among overweight and obese adolescents: an odds ratio analysis

OBJECTIVE: To explore the association of nutrition education and exercise with cardiometabolic health risk factors among overweight and obese adolescents. METHODS: This quasi-experimental study utilised a pretest-posttest design to evaluate changes in body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, and fasting biochemical markers [(glucose, insulin, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C); low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C); triglycerides, glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c); homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR)] among 41 participants. The intervention combined supervised aerobic and resistance exercise sessions thrice weekly with a weekly nutrition education session over 10 weeks. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was used for data analysis, with p