Stage of Change and Motivation to a Healthier Lifestyle before and after an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention

Table 1

Descriptive analysis of the obese patients at baseline and after the intervention. Data are presented as mean ± SD. Statistical significance was considered at .

Characteristics	T0	T1		p	Cohen’s d
Anthropometric data
Body Mass Index (BMI)	33.24 ± 4.64	32.21 ± 4.26	8.28	0.000	0.23
Weight (kg)	94.96 ± 17.01	91.97 ± 16.27	8.89	0.000	0.17
Fat body mass (kg)	35.07 ± 11.46	32.64 ± 10.78	6.26	0.000	0.22
Lean body mass (kg)	56.76 ± 11.93	56.21 ± 11.74	2.72	0.008	0.05
Waist circumference (cm)	109.89 ± 11.50	105.90 ± 10.56	7.19	0.000	0.36
Clinical and biochemical data
Systolic blood pressure	132.25 ± 21.20	123.70 ± 13.84	3.93	0.000	0.48
Diastolic blood pressure	82.11 ± 8.68	73.97 ± 9.55	8.39	0.000	0.89
Glycaemia	111.17 ± 31.87	100.81 ± 24.44	6.08	0.000	0.37
HBA1c	6.24 ± 1.14	5.90 ± 0.68	3.90	0.000	0.36
Total cholesterol	200.18 ± 39.26	194.24 ± 38.87	2.21	0.029	0.15
HDL cholesterol	48.99 ± 11.81	45.48 ± 10.17	4.20	0.000	0.32
LDL cholesterol	124.37 ± 35.47	121.91 ± 32.85	0.86	0.392	n.s.
Triglycerides	143.06 ± 69.68	141.38 ± 80.31	0.27	0.788	n.s.

Statistical significance was considered at .