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SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2025

The prognostic role of food addiction for weight loss treatment outcomes in individuals with overweight and obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Georg Halbeisen, Marie Pahlenkemper, Luisa Sabel, Candice Richardson, Zaida Agüera, Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, Georgios Paslakis

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Synthesis in Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Georg HalbeisenUniversity Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Campus East-Westphalia, Ruhr-University Bochum, Luebbecke, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9529-2215
Marie PahlenkemperUniversity Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Campus East-Westphalia, Ruhr-University Bochum, Luebbecke, Germany.
Luisa SabelUniversity Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Campus East-Westphalia, Ruhr-University Bochum, Luebbecke, Germany.
Candice RichardsonTemerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Zaida AgüeraDepartament d'Infermeria de Salut Pública, Salut Mental i Materno-Infantil, Escola d'Infermeria, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Fernando Fernandez-ArandaCIBER Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Georgios PaslakisUniversity Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Campus East-Westphalia, Ruhr-University Bochum, Luebbecke, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food addiction (FA) could be a potential prognostic factor of weight loss intervention outcomes. This systematic review with meta-analysis aimed to (1) estimate this prognostic effect of FA diagnosis and symptom count in individuals with overweight or obesity and (2) explore potential sources of heterogeneity based on properties of the weight loss intervention, study, and sample (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity). We searched PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science for studies reporting on associations between pre-intervention FA (assessed with the Yale Food Addiction Scale) and weight outcomes after weight loss intervention in individuals with overweight or obesity without a medically diagnosed eating disorder. Twenty-five studies met inclusion criteria, including 4904 individuals (71% women, M

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Food AddictionObesityOverweightWeight LossFemaleHumansPrognosisTreatment OutcomeWeight Reduction Programsbariatric surgerydiverse populationsfood addictiongender differencesobesitypsychotherapyweight loss

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PMID39415327
PMCPMC11711077

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