Predictors of early attrition and successful weight loss in patients attending an obesity management program

BMC Obesity

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of patients by treatment time and weight loss status

Participant characteristics	Single visit	<6 months		≥6 months
	No weight Loss	WL < 5 %	WL ≥ 5 %	WL < 5 %	WL ≥ 5 %
N = 8196	2779	1990	370	1815	1242
Female, %	76.2^cde	77.2^cde	72.7^ab	71.7^ab	72.7^ab
Age, years	45.9 (13.0)^bcde	48.1 (12.9)^acde	49.2 (12.6)^abde	52.2 (12.7)^abce	54.4 (12.5)^abcd
Initial Weight, kg	112.6 (25.0)	110.6 (23.9)^e	112.3 (24.6)	112.7 (27.0)	114.7 (25.5)^b
Weight change, %	-	1.0 (2.3)^cde	8.8 (7.6)^bde	−0.23 (4.2)^bce	12.8 (9.1)^bcd
Initial BMI, kg/m²	40.3 (7.6)^e	39.8 (7.2)^e	39.9 (7.8)	40.5 (8.2)	41.2 (7.9)^ab
Final BMI, kg/m²	-	39.4 (7.2)^cde	36.7 (6.6)^bd	40.6 (8.4)^bce	36.6 (7.2)^bd
< High school	40.3^bd	36.4^a	36.7	36.6^a	39.4
Ethnicity
White, %	83.8^ce	85.0^ce	89.3^abd	82.7^ce	89.8^abd
Asian, %	3.4^e	2.1^ce	2.4^ad	3.2^ce	1.3^abd
Black, %	2.5	2.9	2.8	3.2^e	1.6^cd
Other, %	10.2^ce	10.0^ce	5.5^abd	10.9^ce	7.3^acd
Current smokers, %	20.5^bcde	14.8^ade	12.7^a	10.6^ab	10.1^ab
Treatment time, mos	-	3.1 (1.0)^de	3.6 (1.1)^de	19.5 (15.9)^bc	19.9 (15.2)^bc
Baseline comorbidities
CVD, %	5.5	3.8	3.4^d	6.7^c	4.2
Hypertension, %	32.7^c	35.3^cd	38.6^abd	34.1^bc	35.6
Depression, %	16.5^bcde	9.2^ace	3.4^abd	7.6^ac	4.5^ab
Type 2 diabetes, %	25.8^bde	21.2^acde	26.1^bde	29.1^abc	30.8^abc
Fatty liver, %	14.8^bcde	24.9^ade	25.0^ad	20.6^abc	22.7^a
Cancer, %	4.8^de	5.6^e	3.4^d	1.9^ac	2.1^ab

WL weight loss, BMI Body Mass Index, CVD Cardiovascular disease, CVD heart attack, heart failure, thrombosis, stroke, hyperlipidemia
Bonferroni correction used for multiple comparisons
Values are in mean (SD) or prevalence (%) where indicated
^asignificantly different from single visit (P < 0.05)
^bsignificantly different from <6 months with WL <5 % (P < 0.05)
^csignificantly different from <6 months with WL ≥5 % (P < 0.05)
^dsignificantly different from ≥ 6 months with WL <5 % (P < 0.05)
^esignificantly different from ≥ 6 months with WL ≥5 % (P < 0.05)

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