Status:
COMPLETED
Weight Loss Maintenance in Primary Care
Lead Sponsor:
Drexel University
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Conditions:
Obesity
Overweight
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-70 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
After a three month weight loss phase involving the use of meal replacements, participants are randomized into different weight loss maintenance conditions. Aim 1: To test the hypothesis that the meal...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- BMI of 30, or BMI of 27 with weight-related comorbidities
- Access to a telephone and voice mail/answering machine
- MUST be seeing a primary care physician working with us on this study (in the greater Philadelphia area)
Exclusion
- Previously/currently diagnosed with an eating disorder
- Current bi-polar, depression, substance abuse, or dependence disorder
- Living with someone already enrolled
- Enrolled in another weight loss program
- Current disorder/medications affecting body weight or energy expenditure (e.g. thyroid disease)
- Myocardial infraction within the past three months
- Unstable angina
- Nephrotic syndrome/malabsorptive disease
- Gout attack within the past year
- Lactating/pregnant (or planning within next two years)
- Current/recent history of cancer, neurological disease, high creatinine levels, active hepatic disease
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 1 2010
Estimated Enrollment :
238 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00455780
Start Date
January 1 2005
End Date
August 1 2010
Last Update
May 25 2011
Active Locations (1)
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Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19102