ArticleBMC public health2022
Association between weight loss, change in physical activity, and change in quality of life following a corporately sponsored, online weight loss program.
Article in BMC public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Effects of a 2-Year Primary Care Weight Loss Intervention on Quality of Life in Patients With Obesity.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2026Trial
- Remotely delivered weight management for people with long COVID and overweight: the randomized wait-list-controlled ReDIRECT trial.Nature medicine · 2025Trial
- The Added Value of Remote Technology in Cardiac Rehabilitation on Physical Function, Anthropometrics, and Quality of Life: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
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- Tirzepatide Was Associated with Improved Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults with Obesity or Overweight and Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the Phase 3 SURMOUNT-2 Trial.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2025Article
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- Baseline Characteristics in the Remote Diet Intervention to REduce long-COVID Symptoms Trial (ReDIRECT).NIHR open research · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe physiological benefits associated with corporately sponsored weight loss programs are increasingly well documented. However, less is known about how these programs affect employees' quality of life (QoL). The purpose of the present analysis was to examine the association between weight loss, change in physical activity, and change in QoL following a corporately sponsored, online weight loss program.
methodsWe examined the relationship between weight loss, self-reported change in physical activity, and change in several QoL indices in 26,658 participants (79% women) after the initial 10 weeks of the online weight loss program. The trend in changes in each QoL index with increasing weight loss and change in physical activity was examined using logistic regression analysis.
resultsWe observed greater improvements in each QoL index with increasing weight loss (p-for-trend, < 0.001) as well as with progressive increases in physical activity (p-for-trend, < 0.001). The combination of increasing weight loss and increases in physical activity were associated with the greatest improvements in each QoL index (additive effect). The percentage of employees reporting improvements in QoL ("improved" or "very much improved") was 64% for energy, 63% for mood, 33% for sleep, 65% for self-confidence, 68% for indigestion, and 39% for musculoskeletal pain.
conclusionsAmong people, who engage with a commercial weight loss program, greater weight loss during the program was associated with greater improvements in QoL, and increases in physical activity further enhanced the QoL-related benefits.
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