Weight Maintenance after Dietary Weight Loss: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Effectiveness of Behavioural Intensive Intervention

Flore G.
First
Writing - Original Draft Preparation
;
Preti A.
Second
Methodology
;
Carta M. G.
Supervision
;
Deledda A.
Data Curation
;
Fosci M.
Methodology
;
Loviselli A.
Supervision
;
Velluzzi F.
Last
Writing - Review & Editing
2022-01-01

Abstract

After a low-calorie diet, only 25% of patients succeed in maintaining the result of weight loss for a long time. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to explore whether patients undergoing intensive intervention during the maintenance phase have a greater preservation of the weight achieved during the previous slimming phase than controls. A bibliographic search was conducted using PubMed, Scopus, and Cochrane databases for clinical trials and randomised, controlled trials investigating the role of choice in weight-loss-maintenance strategies. Only studies with a follow-up of at least 12 months were considered. A total of eight studies, for a total of 1454 patients, was identified, each comparing a group that followed a more intensive protocol to a control group. Our metanalysis highlighted that an intensive approach even in the maintenance phase could be important to ensure greater success in the phase following the weight-loss period. However, it should be pointed out that the improvement was not so different from the trend of the respective controls, with a non-statistically significant mean difference of the effect size (0.087; 95% CI −0.016 to 0.190 p = 0.098). This finding, along with the observation of a weight regain in half of the selected studies, suggests this is a long work that has to be started within the weight-loss phase and reinforced during the maintenance phase. The problem of weight control in patients with obesity should be understood as a process of education to a healthy lifestyle and a balanced diet to be integrated in the context of a multidisciplinary approach.
2022
Inglese
14
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1259
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Esperti anonimi
internazionale
scientifica
Behavioural approach; Diet; Exercise; Gender; Low caloric diet; Obesity; Overweight; Physical activity; Weight loss; Weight loss maintenance
Flore, G.; Preti, A.; Carta, M. G.; Deledda, A.; Fosci, M.; Nardi, A. E.; Loviselli, A.; Velluzzi, F.
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