Maintenance of Weight Loss After Initiation of Nutrition Training: A Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Weight regain after successful weight loss interventions is common.

Objective

To establish the efficacy of a weight loss maintenance program compared with usual care in obese adults.

Design

2-group, parallel, randomized trial stratified by initial weight loss (<10 kg vs. ≥10 kg), conducted from 20 August 2012 to 18 December 2015. Outcome assessors were blinded to treatment assignment. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01357551).

Setting

3 primary care clinics at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina.

Patients

Obese outpatients (body mass index ≥30 kg/m2) who lost 4 kg or more of body weight during a 16-week, group-based weight loss program.

Intervention

The maintenance intervention, delivered primarily by telep

SUBMITTER: Voils CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5483942 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature