Research Article
Impact of Successful Weight Loss Maintenance on Serum Lipids and Glucose Concentrations of Previous Participants of a Weight Loss Programme in Accra, Ghana
Table 3
Comparison of successful and unsuccessful weight loss maintainers on fasting blood lipids, fasting blood glucose, and glycosylated haemoglobin concentrations.
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SWLM = successful weight loss maintainers; UWLM = unsuccessful weight loss maintainers. Comparison of successful and unsuccessful maintainers is based on ANCOVA: Model 1, unadjusted model; Model 2, adjusted model. ƛAdjusted for total percent weight loss and post-treatment time and having hypercholesterolemia (categorical variable), cholesterol-lowering medication status (categorical variable), and total percent regain based on survey time, age, gender, and follow-up BMI; ¶adjusted for total percent weight loss and post-treatment time and having hypercholesterolemia (categorical variable) and total percent regain based on survey time, age, gender, and follow-up BMI; significant P value. |