Intensity and duration of lifestyle interventions for long-term weight loss and association with mortality: a meta-analysis of randomised trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the importance of the frequency and duration of lifestyle interventions for achieving weight loss over ≥1 year and associations with all-cause mortality.

Design

Meta-analysis of randomised trials using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines and RevMan software version 5·2 (The Nordic Cochrane Centre, The Cochrane Collaboration, Copenhagen).

Data sources

MEDLINE, CENTRAL, Google and Science Direct databases alongside reference lists of appropriate articles and meta-analyses.

Eligibility criteria

Randomised studies published in English-language journals from 1980 to June 2018 that assessed lifestyle compared with control interventions on weight loss and that included ≥100 subjects and reported weight c

SUBMITTER: Singh N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6701694 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature