ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2020
Weight cycling is associated with adverse cardiometabolic markers in a cross-sectional representative US sample.
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- The relationship between psychological distress and weight maintenance in weight cycling: mediating role of eating behavior.BMC public health · 2024Trial
- Weight maintenance after discontinuation of GLP-1 therapies.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- The impact of weight cycling on gut microbiome richness and diversity in female rats.Physiological reports · 2026Article
- Weight Loss-Associated Remodeling of Adipose Tissue Immunometabolism.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Review
- Evolution of multidisciplinary obesity treatments: past, present, and future role of nutrition.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025Review
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- The Impact of Yoyo Dieting and Resistant Starch on Weight Loss and Gut Microbiome in C57Bl/6 Mice.Nutrients · 2024Article
- The Impact of Weight Cycling on Health and Obesity.Metabolites · 2024Review
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- Weight cycling based on altered immune microenvironment as a result of metaflammation.Nutrition & metabolism · 2023Review
- Repercussions of absolute and time-rated BMI "yo-yo" fluctuations on cardiovascular stress-related morbidities within the vascular-metabolic CUN cohort.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Weight Cycling and Knee Joint Degeneration in Individuals with Overweight or Obesity: Four-Year Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundWhether weight cycling (repeated weight loss and regain) is associated with cardiometabolic health is unclear. Study objective was to examine whether weight cycling since young adulthood (ie, 25 years of age) was associated with cardiometabolic markers.
methodsData from a nationally representative cross-sectional US sample (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2014) were used. Weight history was based on self-reported weight at age 25, 10 years prior and 1 year prior to the survey (n=4190, 51% male). Using current self-reported weight as the anchor, participants were classified as (1)
resultsCompared with females with
conclusionWeight cycling is adversely associated with cardiometabolic markers but associations differ by sex and weight status. While weight cycling is consistently associated with worse cardiometabolic markers among females, results are mixed among males. Weight cycling is associated with worse lipid measures for normal weight persons, and marginally worse insulin sensitivity for those with overweight/obesity.
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