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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 391-399Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803175
Keywords
epidemiologic methods; weight maintenance; weight change; adults; longitudinal studies; body mass index
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [R21 HL075314] Funding Source: Medline
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There is currently no consensus on the definition of weight maintenance in adults. Issues to consider in setting a standard definition include expert opinion, precedents set in previous studies, public health and clinical applications, comparability across body sizes, measurement error, normal weight fluctuations and biologic relevance. To be useful, this definition should indicate an amount of change less than is clinically relevant, but more than expected from measurement error or fluctuations in fluid balance under normal conditions. It is an advantage for the definition to be graded by body size and to be easily understood by the public as well as scientists. Taking all these factors into consideration, the authors recommend that long-term weight maintenance in adults be defined as a weight change of < 3% of body weight.
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