Leyden, Eimear, Hanson, Petra, Halder, Louise, Rout, Lucy, Cherry, Ishbel, Shuttlewood, Emma, Poole, Donna, Loveder, Mark, Abraham, Jenny, Kyrou, Ioannis, Randeva, Harpal S, Lam, F T, Menon, Vinod and Barber, Thomas M (2021). Older age does not influence the success of weight loss through the implementation of lifestyle modification. Clinical Endocrinology, 94 (2), pp. 204-209.
Abstract
Objective: Age is sometimes a barrier for acceptance of patients into a hospital-based obesity service. Our aim was to explore the effect of age on the ability to lose weight through lifestyle interventions, implemented within a hospital-based obesity service. Design: Retrospective study. Patients: We included a cohort of randomly selected patients with morbid obesity (n = 242), who attended our hospital-based obesity service during 2005-2016 and received only lifestyle weight loss interventions. Measurements: Primary outcome measures were percentage weight loss (%WL) and percentage reduction in body mass index (%rBMI) following implemented lifestyle interventions. Data were stratified according to patient age at referral: group 1 (age < 60 years, n = 167) and group 2 (age ≥ 60 years, n = 75). Weight loss was compared between groups, and correlations with age at referral were explored. Results: The duration of hospital-based weight loss interventions ranged between 1 and 143 months (mean: 38.9 months; SD: 32.3). Baseline BMI at referral differed significantly between groups 1 and 2 (49.7 kgm −2 [SD: 8.7] vs 46.9 kgm −2 [SD: 6.1], respectively; P <.05). Following implemented lifestyle interventions, between groups 1 and 2 there were no differences in %WL (6.9% [SD: 16.7] vs 7.3% [SD: 11.60], respectively; P = NS) or %rBMI (8.1% [SD: 14.9] vs 7.8% [SD: 11.7], respectively; p = NS). Overall, there was no significant correlation between patient age at referral and %WL (r = −.13, p = NS). Conclusions: Older age does not influence the success of weight loss through the implementation of lifestyle modification within a hospital-based obesity service. Therefore, age per se should not influence clinical decisions regarding acceptance of patients to hospital-based obesity services.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cen.14354 |
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Divisions: | College of Health & Life Sciences > Aston Medical School |
Additional Information: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.© 2020 The Authors. Clinical Endocrinology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | age,lifestyle,obesity,weight loss,Body Mass Index,Life Style,Obesity, Morbid,Weight Loss,Humans,Aged,Retrospective Studies,Infant, Newborn,Endocrinology,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism |
Publication ISSN: | 1365-2265 |
Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2024 07:05 |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2023 14:56 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2021-02 |
Published Online Date: | 2020-10-22 |
Accepted Date: | 2020-10-14 |
Authors: |
Leyden, Eimear
Hanson, Petra Halder, Louise Rout, Lucy Cherry, Ishbel Shuttlewood, Emma Poole, Donna Loveder, Mark Abraham, Jenny Kyrou, Ioannis ( ![]() Randeva, Harpal S Lam, F T Menon, Vinod Barber, Thomas M |