Trial reportAmerican journal of preventive medicine2008
Weight loss during the intensive intervention phase of the weight-loss maintenance trial.
Trial report in American journal of preventive medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 154 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Reducing Obesity and Cartilage Compression in Knees
Lifestyle Intervention With Physical Activity and Diet for Precision Health in Individuals With Overweight: a 6-month Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (LI-PAD)
Who cites it
154 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 321 citations in OpenAlex.
- Identifying Social Media-Based Interactions That Help Adults to Adhere to Weight Loss Goals: A Systematic Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of total diet replacement programs on mental well-being: A systematic review with meta-analyses.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022Pooled it
- A Systematic Review Exploring the Social Cognitive Theory of Self-Regulation as a Framework for Chronic Health Condition Interventions.PloS one · 2015Pooled it
- Psychosocial factors and theory in physical activity studies in minorities.American journal of health behavior · 2015Pooled it
- Differences in weight loss across different BMI classes: a meta-analysis of the effects of interventions with diet and exercise.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2014Pooled it
- Interventions for improving nutrition and physical activity behaviors in adult African American populations: a systematic review, January 2000 through December 2011.Preventing chronic disease · 2013Pooled it
- Family-focused physical activity, diet and obesity interventions in African-American girls: a systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2013Pooled it
- Weight loss maintenance in African American women: a systematic review of the behavioral lifestyle intervention literature.Journal of obesity · 2013Pooled it
- Interactive computer-based interventions for weight loss or weight maintenance in overweight or obese people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Weight loss and African-American women: a systematic review of the behavioural weight loss intervention literature.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2012Pooled it
- Self-monitoring in weight loss: a systematic review of the literature.Journal of the American Dietetic Association · 2011Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitators to dietary change while aiming to reduce free sugar intakes: framework analysis based on intervention, time for change, and success at 12 weeks.Journal of nutritional science · 2026Trial
- Effects of dietary recommendations for reducing free sugar intakes, on free sugar intakes, dietary profiles and anthropometry: a randomised controlled trial.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Trial
- Efficacy of a Commercial Weight Management Program Compared With a Do-It-Yourself Approach: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Differential impact of telehealth extended-care programs for weight-loss maintenance in African American versus white adults.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Trial
- The association of stressful life events on weight loss efforts among African American breast cancer survivors.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2022Trial
- Similar weight loss and maintenance in African American and White women in the Improving Weight Loss (ImWeL) trial.Ethnicity & health · 2021Trial
- Measures of adherence as predictors of early and total weight loss with intensive behavioral therapy for obesity combined with liraglutide 3.0 mg.Behaviour research and therapy · 2020Trial
- The WORD: Outcomes of a Behavioral Weight Loss Maintenance Effectiveness Trial in Rural Black Adults of Faith.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2020Trial
- Effects of Dietary Self-Monitoring, Physical Activity, Liraglutide 3.0 mg, and Placebo on Weight Loss in the SCALE IBT Trial.Obesity facts · 2020 · on this mapTrial
94 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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17 authors at 10 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundTo improve methods for long-term weight management, the Weight Loss Maintenance (WLM) trial, a four-center randomized trial, was conducted to compare alternative strategies for maintaining weight loss over a 30-month period. This paper describes methods and results for the initial 6-month weight-loss program (Phase I).
methodsEligible adults were aged > or =25, overweight or obese (BMI=25-45 kg/m2), and on medications for hypertension and/or dyslipidemia. Anthropomorphic, demographic, and psychosocial measures were collected at baseline and 6 months. Participants (n=1685) attended 20 weekly group sessions to encourage calorie restriction, moderate-intensity physical activity, and the DASH (dietary approaches to stop hypertension) dietary pattern. Weight-loss predictors with missing data were replaced by multiple imputation.
resultsParticipants were 44% African American and 67% women; 79% were obese (BMI> or =30), 87% were taking anti-hypertensive medications, and 38% were taking antidyslipidemia medications. Participants attended an average of 72% of 20 group sessions. They self-reported 117 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week, kept 3.7 daily food records per week, and consumed 2.9 servings of fruits and vegetables per day. The Phase-I follow-up rate was 92%. Mean (SD) weight change was -5.8 kg (4.4), and 69% lost at least 4 kg. All race-gender subgroups lost substantial weight: African-American men (-5.4 kg +/- 7.7); African-American women (-4.1 kg +/- 2.9); non-African-American men (-8.5 kg +/- 12.9); and non-African-American women (-5.8 kg +/- 6.1). Behavioral measures (e.g., diet records and physical activity) accounted for most of the weight-loss variation, although the association between behavioral measures and weight loss differed by race and gender groups.
conclusionsThe WLM behavioral intervention successfully achieved clinically significant short-term weight loss in a diverse population of high-risk patients.
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