Late successful weight reduction and maintenance among overweight and obese adults—A two-year retrospective study

Weight satisfaction, management strategies and health beliefs in knee osteoarthritis patients attending an outpatient clinic

“…Thus, it is concerning that weight gain was so common in people with knee OA, particularly in the obese group, who are at highest risk of adverse health outcomes. There were differences in effort, intentions and effective weight management across the BMI groups: greater perceived effort in the obese was not reflected in successful outcomes, as has been seen in other at‐risk populations, such as those with diabetes and hypertension . Indeed 19% of the obese patients made less effort to control their weight now, having regained prior weight loss, and dissatisfied overweight subjects were also more likely to make active attempts at weight reduction and to be dieting than people without this awareness.…”

“…There were differences in effort, intentions and effective weight management across the BMI groups: greater perceived effort in the obese was not reflected in successful outcomes, as has been seen in other at-risk populations, such as those with diabetes and hypertension. 22 Indeed 19% of the obese patients made less effort to control their weight now, having regained prior weight loss, and dissatisfied overweight subjects were also more likely to make active attempts at weight reduction 23 and to be dieting than people without this awareness. This was also reflected in the current study, where obese people demonstrated similar insight by acknowledging their weight problems and were more likely than other participants to express that they were actively attempting weight loss.…”

Association between shared medical appointments and weight loss outcomes and anti‐obesity medication use in patients with obesity

“…In order to adequately treat patients, medical management needs to be continued long term, and there is a need for continual patient engagement in obesity treatment. Prior research has identified factors such as follow‐up visit frequency and interdisciplinary intervention as contributing positively to weight loss over periods of 1 to 2 years, both of which are characteristics of the SMA approach.…”

The Accumulating Data to Optimally Predict Obesity Treatment (ADOPT) Core Measures Project: Rationale and Approach

“…There is a growing understanding that this variability in response is rooted in the inherent variability of behavioral, biological, environmental, and psychosocial factors ; however, at present, we lack data sets that allow a comprehensive examination of how these multiple factors and their interactions influence treatment response. Some explanatory factors have emerged as potential predictors of treatment response and are summarized elsewhere , but few have been replicated across trials . Several reasons for this have been suggested, including heterogeneous study populations and treatments, imprecisely defined factors and the lack of common measures to assess them, insufficient frequency of longitudinal assessments, insufficient statistical power, and inadequate statistical modeling and analytic approaches .…”