Long-Term Weight Maintenance after an Intensive Weight-Loss Program
James W. Anderson, MD,
Satit Vichitbandra, MD,
Wei Qian, MS and
Richard J. Kryscio, PhD
Metabolic Research Group, VA Medical Center and University of Kentucky (HMR) Weight Management Program (J.W.A., S.V.),
Department of Statistics (W.Q., R.J.K.), University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

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Fig. 1. Weight loss maintained over seven years expressed in kg and as percentage. Curvilinear line is the polynomial fit to the % weight loss maintained.
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Fig. 2. Successful weight maintenance of 10% of initial body weight over seven years. Numbers at top of bars represent number of subjects with weights available at each time point. Data for men are in solid bars and women are in open bars.
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