Sentence examples for care for weight from inspiring English sources
Patients with overweight or obesity in the Netherlands are often referred to dietitians in primary care for weight loss treatment.
Families in which the parents or child could not read English, and families of children receiving care for weight management were excluded.
Those who refused pharmacological treatment or who did not tolerate it for adverse events (n = 13) were also followed up, serving as comparisons, and received standard care for weight loss management.
They randomized 44 children (8-14 years) who were in the final part of a 10- month inpatients treatment program in an obesity centre to either 6-week executive functions training or to standard care for weight control.
A recent systematic review of 13 randomised controlled trials examining effects of "extended care" for weight loss maintenance reported an average 3.2 kg difference in weight regain between extended care and no or minimal additional contact.
The primary hypothesis was that weight management with sibutramine together with standard care for weight management would reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in high-risk subjects to a greater extent than standard care alone (43).
Participants in the control group were advised to contact their general practice to receive the usual care provided for weight loss.
3 Several studies have evaluated the effectiveness of primary care interventions for weight management in obesity, 4 8 but few studies have evaluated how overweight and obese patients are managed in primary care.
For example, exercise groups have standardised qualifications for leaders, whereas in some primary care groups for weight loss, practice nurses are self-taught and learn on the job [ 21].
Inclusion in models of traffic and land use variables did not affect the coefficients for educational attainment, or the coefficients for race and the index of prenatal care for birth weight (full model, table 5).
Intervening with parents exclusively to address other health concerns in children and youth has been applied successfully in the past [ 36- 38], but represents a newer model for care for pediatric weight management.
