Three-year follow-up of participants in a commercial weight loss program: Can you keep it off?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1302-1306

  Grodstein, Francine ^a,b,c   Levine, Rachel ^a   Troy, Lisa ^b   Spencer, Terri ^a   Colditz, Graham A ^a,b   Stampfer, Meir J ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

COMMERCE; DIET, REDUCING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0029922703     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.156.12.1302     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Kuczmarski RJ, Flegal KM, Campbell SM, Johnson CL. Increasing prevalence of overweight among US adults. JAMA. 1994;272:205-211.
2. Manson JE, Stampfer MJ, Hennekens CH, et al. Body weight and longevity: a reassessment. JAMA. 1987;257:353-358.
3. Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ, Giovannucci E, et al. Body size and fat distribution as predictors of coronary heart disease among middle-aged and older US men. Am J Epidemiol. 1995;141:1117-1127.
4. Colditz GA, Willett WC, Stampfer MJ, et al. Weight as a risk factor for clinical diabetes in women. Am J Epidemiol. 1990;132:501-513.
5. Institute of Medicine. Weighing the Options. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1995.
6. Palgi A, Leighton J, Greenberg I, Hoefer MA, Bistrian BR, Blackburn GL. Multidisciplinary treatment of obesity with a protein-sparing modified fast: results in 668 outpatients. Am J Public Health. 1985;75:1190-1194.
7. Holden JH, Darga LL, Olson SM, Stettner OC, Ardito EA, Lucas CP. Long-term follow-up of patients attending a combination very-low calorie diet and behaviour therapy weight loss programme. Int J Obes. 1992;16:605-613.
8. Hamilton L. Regression With Graphics. Belmont, Calif: Duxbury Press; 1992.
9. Kanders BS, Blackburn GL, Lavin P, Norton D. Weight loss outcome and health benefits associated with the OPTIFAST program in the treatment of obesity. Int J Obes. 1989;13:131-134.
10. Kramer FM, Jeffery RW, Forster JL, Snell MK. Long-term follow-up of behavioral treatment for obesity: patterns of weight regain among men and women. Int J Obes. 1989;13:123-136.
11. Hensrud DD, Weinsier RL, Darnell BE. Hunter GR. A prospective study of weight maintenance in obese subjects reduced to normal body weight without weight-loss training. Am J Clin Nutr. 1994;60:688-694.
12. Marston AR, Criss J. Maintenance of successful weight loss: incidence and prediction. Int Obes. 1984;8:435-439.
13. Safer DJ. Diet, behavior modification, and exercise: a review of obesity treatments from a long-term perspective. South Med J. 1991;84:1470-1474.