Assessing the efficacy of the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Programme (HELP) compared with enhanced standard care of the obese adolescent in the community: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

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Deborah Christie1, Lee Hudson, Anne Mathiot, Tim J Cole, Saffron Karlsen, Anthony Kessel, Sanjay Kinra, Steve Morris, Irwin Nazareth, Ulla Sovio, Ian C K Wong, Russell M Viner

Author Affiliations

1: General and adolescent paediatrics unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK. Deborah.Christie@uclh.nhs.uk

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