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Weight loss maintenance is difficult to sustain without continued structured intervention, as significant anthropometric improvements were not maintained 18 weeks post-intervention in either group.
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In the maintenance period, even though both groups showed clinical decreases in weight, WC, body fat and BMI, none of them were found to be significant when compared with the intervention period.
Why this rating
Consistent with the study's own data showing loss of statistical significance in maintenance phase.
Source
Effects of an Intervention and Maintenance Weight Loss Diet with and without Exercise on Anthropometric Indices in Overweight and Obese Healthy Women
Eleni Andreou et al. · Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism · 2011
DOI 10.1159/000334755
rct · n=206Cited 20×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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