"Evaluation of the Americans in Motion - Healthy Interventions Project"

Clinicians and office staff personally engage in AIM-HI fitness program, and promote program to patients

Conventional office: Clinicians and office staff are not personally engaged in the AIM-HI fitness program, but promote program to patients.

Patient receives feedback on two novel indicators of their individual cardiovascular risk that: 1)appear to relate to obesity and lack of physical activity, and 2) may show relatively rapid change with improvements in these areas. These are the Homeostatic Assay - Insulin Resistance or HOMA-IR and Nuclear Molecular Resonance (NMR) lipoprotein profiles (NMRLP). These patients and their physicians also will receive periodic feedback on other outcome measures, including BMI, blood pressure, a 3-minute step test, eating assessment, physical activity assessment, and emotional well-being assessment.

Patients will not receive feedback on two specific cardiovascular risk indicators (ie, Homeostatic Assay - Insulin Resistance, Nuclear Molecular Resonance lipoprotein profiles). However, patients will receive feedback on Body Mass Index, blood pressure, a 3-minute step test, eating assessment, physical activity assessment, and emotional well-being assessment.