Edmonton Obesity Staging System Prevalence and Association with Weight Loss in a Publicly Funded Referral-Based Obesity Clinic

Table 2

Characteristics of patients attending a publicly funded multisite weight management clinic among EOSS stages 0 to 3.

	EOSS stage 0	EOSS stage 1	EOSS stage 2	EOSS stage 3
	98	603	4863	223
Age (years)	40.5 ± 11.9	44.8 ± 12.5^a	53.5 ± 12.03^ab	59.7 ± 11.7^abc
Sex (% male)	15.3	20.9^a	29.5^ab	30.9^ab
Ethnicity (% White)	77.4	86.7^a	86.3^a	88.6^a
Weight (kg)	104.7 ± 18.5	114.1 ± 23.6^a	115.8 ± 25.7^a	112.1 ± 25.3^ac
BMI (kg/m²)	37.8 ± 5.9	40.8 ± 7.2^a	41.5 ± 7.7^a	40.7 ± 8.3^a
TX time (months)	10.4 ± 11.7	9.4 ± 11.5	12.7 ± 15.0^ab	14.7 ± 16.0^abc

EOSS: Edmonton Obesity Staging System; BMI: body mass index; WL: weight loss. ^aSignificantly different from stage 0 (). ^bStatistically significant from stage 1 (). ^cStatistically significant from stage 2 ().