Systematic review of long-term weight loss studies in obese adults: clinical significance and applicability to clinical practice

By J. Douketis, Christine Macie, Lehana Thabane, D. Williamson. International Journal of Obesity, 2005

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Systematic review of reviews of intervention components associated with increased effectiveness in dietary and physical activity interventions (2011, background): “The effectiveness of such interventions (as well as physical activity only interventions) in producing weight loss was further supported by medium and low quality causal evidence (grade 1+ and 1-) from 14 meta-analyses and summaries of RCTs from six reviews (eight medium, six low quality analyses)[3”
Pediatric Obesity-Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline. (2017, positive): “Successful weight management, through lifestyle interventions, delays the onset of T2DM in adults (197) and improves cardiovascular fitness (198, 199).”
Adherence to a Smartphone Application for Weight Loss Compared to Website and Paper Diary: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (2013, background): “To put this attrition figure into context, a systematic review of long-term weight loss trials in obese adults reported losses to follow-up in the range of 30% to 60% [36].”
2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults (2013, methodology): “The remain ing 28 publications were rated good or fair quality and included in the evidence base that was used to form ulate the ESs and recommendations (12-39).”