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An 8-week nurse-led structured lifestyle modification program significantly improves anthropometric, metabolic, and cardiovascular risk factors in severely obese adults without requiring bariatric surgery.
If you are severely obese, a structured 8-week program combining exercise, dietary education, and counseling can significantly improve your health markers like weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol, even without surgery. The key is consistency and individualized goal setting.
Bariatric patients completing an 8 week, nurse-led structured lifestyle programme had improved adiposity, fitness, lipid profiles, psychosocial health, blood pressure and glycaemia.
Why this rating
Retrospective observational cohort study without a control group; results are promising but subject to selection bias and lack of randomization.
Source
Effects of an eight-week supervised, structured lifestyle modification programme on anthropometric, metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors in severely obese adults
Catherine Crowe et al. · BMC Endocrine Disorders · 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12902-015-0038-x
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