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Obese patients not motivated by weight-loss programmes

Receiving an obesity-related disease diagnosis might be enough to motivate patients to start a weight-loss program, but sustaining the efforts poses a challenge.

Receiving an obesity-related disease diagnosis might be enough to motivate patients to start a weight-loss program, but sustaining the efforts poses a challenge, according to findings published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. In a retrospective study at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Carolina, Megan McVay, PhD, of Duke University, and colleagues recruited 45,272 VA patients (91% men; mean age, 58 years) with a BMI >30 to determine whether weight change or obesity-related diagnosis in the preceding 6 months were associated with initiation and sustained use of a behavioral weight-management program. Participants, identified from a longitudinal

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