new YORK (Reuters Health) – obese people
participated in a program of weight management centers of
community health adelgazaron and not recovered the kilos
compared with a group that did not participate in the program, according to a
study.
Moreover, they were more likely to maintain controlled pressure
until two years later.
Participants were mainly belonging to
poor and racial minorities, which are the two population groups
of United States are more affected by obesity and the
diseases, such as diabetes and heart, ills associated
and the most difficult to achieve with the strategies of
prevention.
Due in part to these demographic characteristics, the
results are “encouraging”, said Sara Bleich, school
Public health at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Bloomberg and not
participated in the study.
“What usually happens (in weight management programs)
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is that people lose many kilos at the beginning and the
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return to recover quickly”, said.
“Good thing (from this study) is that we are seeing a
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sustained reduction of body weight, albeit modest. “This
reduction could reverse or alleviate a lot of
diseases”, he added.
The study was conducted in three community health centers of
Boston. Randomly, about 400 obese adults under treatment of
hypertension received usual care, which includes a
brochure weight healthy or her participated in a program
of weight management.
Participants in the programme established small goals to
achieve with the change of behaviour, such as reducing the amount
time in front of the TV, walking every day and not eat
sweet beverages.
They received regular educators phone calls
in health during the two years the Studio to talk
on your goals and progress. In addition, invited them to
Group, monthly and optional support sessions to attend in
community health center.
More than 80 per cent of participants were black
or Hispanic and most did not have more education than high school and
was about 55 years old. Almost all joined the study weighing more
100 kilos.
Gary Bennett, author of the study from Duke
University, in Durham, North Carolina, found that the
program is unique because it took place in a care centre
primary and was custom.
Two years of the study, the Group had lost something
more than the control group: 1.54 kg versus 0.5 kg, according to
publishes Archives of Internal Medicine.
They adelgazaron not too much, but they did not get fat,
said Bennett, who considered that the pressure changes
blood were “clinically significant” to lose weight
few kilos.
Though the team is still doing analysis of the
costs of the programme, said that the intervention “is the
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enough economic so that health centres and
other primary care centres can offer it to the
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population with a low cost or free”.
