Dietary and Lifestyle Factors Serve as Predictors of Successful Weight Loss Maintenance Postbariatric Surgery

Table 1

Characteristics of the study sample.

Characteristic	Weight maintainers ()	Weight regainers ()		Entire group ()
Female/male (n)	19/10	9/12		28/22
Mean age (SD), years	41 (9.9)	41 (7.5)	0.799	41.4 (8.9)
Preoperative mean BMI (SD), kg/m^2	47.3 (8.9)	48.9 (9.8)	0.564	48 (9.2)
Preoperative mean weight (SD), kg	127.7 (27.8)	135.4 (32.8)	0.376	131 (30)
Lowest mean weight reached postsurgery (SD), kg	79.4 (17.7)	77.8 (16.6)	0.753	78.7 (17.1)
Lowest mean BMI reached postsurgery (SD), kg/m^2	29.5 (6)	28.2 (5.1)	0.431	29 (5.7)
Mean weight at the end of follow-up (SD), kg	84.1 (18)	96.6 (19.4)	0.023	89.3 (19.4)
Mean BMI at the end of follow-up (SD), kg/m^2	31.2 (6)	35.8 (6.2)	0.011	33.1 (6.5)
Mean weight regain (SD), kg	5.4 (4.1)	19.5 (6.7)	<0.001	11.3 (8.8)

Significance .