The association of self-regulation with weight loss maintenance after an intensive combined lifestyle intervention for children and adolescents with severe obesity

ConclusionsThe ability to self-regulate after an intensive, partly inpatient, multidisciplinary one year intervention for severe obesity in children and adolescents was not associated with the ability to maintain the achieved weight loss during the following year. Factors that explain the large range of long term outcomes need to be elucidated.Trial registrationNetherlands Trial Register (NTR1678, registered 20-Feb-2009).
Source: BMC Obesity - Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research