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Patients with obesity experienced a median weight change of -5% at 6 months and -4% at 18 months after the intervention.
Practitioners can expect significant weight loss in patients with obesity following a multicomponent lifestyle intervention.
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Median weight change (25th;75th quartile) was -5% (-2;-8%), p <0.001 from baseline to 6 months and -4% (0;-9%), p <0.001 at 18 months.
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The study is a cohort study with a large sample size.
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The outcome of a multicomponent lifestyle intervention in patients with obesity: A cohort study
Signe Kierkegaard et al. · European Journal of Integrative Medicine · 2023
DOI 10.1016/j.eujim.2023.102259
cohort · n=1336Cited 3×
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