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The relationship of the age of onset of obesity to the success of its treatment in the adult

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Margaret Ashwell
Margaret Ashwell
Affiliation:
Clinical Research Centre, Watford Road, Harrow, Middx. HA1 3UJ
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Abstract

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1. A survey was done of 2333 men and women who claimed experience of slimming.

2. Their loss of weight was determined from their maximum stated weight and their present weight. The loss of weight was calculated as the percentage of the maximum weight and was related to the stated age of onset of obesity.

3. The results showed that those people in the survey who had been fat since childhood had lost just as much weight as those people who had become fat as adults.

4. These results suggest that the treatment of early-onset obesity may not be an unrealistic objective.

Type
Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , September 1975 , pp. 201 - 204
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1975

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