Clinical Study
Long-Term Weight Maintenance after a 17-Week Weight Loss Intervention with or without a One-Year Maintenance Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Table 1
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients by treatment group, data are means (SD) or numbers (%).
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| | Age (years) | 47.3 (10.5) | 47.4 (10.1) | | Weight (kg) | 120.6 (23.5) | 117.8 (22.0) | | Height (m) | 1.69 (0.10) | 1.69 (0.08) | | BMI (kg/m2) | 42.1 (5.7) | 41.4 (6.4) | | Female | 71 (72%) | 71 (71%) | | Married/living together | 60 (72%) | 56 (78%) | | Childhood obesity | 33 (33%) | 39 (39%) | | Earlier lost >10 kg | | | | Never | 22 (22%) | 28 (28%) | | Once | 49 (49%) | 46 (46%) | | Twice or more | 28 (28%) | 26 (26%) | | Smoking | 32 (32%) | 26 (26%) | | Basic education | | | | Primary school | 30 (31%) | 25 (25%) | | Comprehensive school | 43 (44%) | 55 (55%) | | High school | 25 (26%) | 20 (20%) | | Professional education | | | | No | 12 (13%) | 12 (12%) | | Vocational courses | 30 (32%) | 31 (32%) | | Vocational school | 17 (18%) | 21 (22%) | | College | 29 (31%) | 24 (25%) | | University | 7 (7%) | 9 (9%) | | Employed | 64 (65%) | 70 (70%) | | Diabetes medication | 11 (11%) | 22 (22%) | | Hypertension medication | 45 (45%) | 49 (49%) | | Lipid medication | 12 (12%) | 14 (14%) | | Asthma medication | 15 (15%) | 12 (12%) | | Psychiatric diagnosis | 16 (16%) | 14 (14%) | | Sleep apnoea diagnosed | 6 (6%) | 18 (18%) | | Leisure time exercise twice weekly or more | 27 (28%) | 37 (38%) | | Eating three meals daily | 53 (54%) | 56 (57%) | | Choosing low fat food daily | 44 (45%) | 46 (47%) | | Weighing weekly | 32 (33%) | 41 (42%) |
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