A long-term intensive lifestyle intervention and physical function: the look AHEAD Movement and Memory Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the long-term effects of an intensive lifestyle intervention on physical function using a randomized post-test design in the Look AHEAD trial.

Methods

Overweight and obese (BMI ≥ 25 kg m(-2)) middle-aged and older adults (aged 45-76 years at enrollment) with type 2 diabetes (n = 964) at four clinics in Look AHEAD, a trial evaluating an intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) designed to achieve weight loss through caloric restriction and increased physical activity compared to diabetes support and education (DSE), underwent standardized assessments of performance-based physical function including an expanded short physical performance battery (SPPBexp ), 20-m and 400-m walk, and grip and knee extensor strength 8 years post-randomization, during the trial's

SUBMITTER: Houston DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4276480 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature