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Impact of weight maintenance and loss on diabetes risk and burden: a population-based study in 33,184 participants

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, February 2017
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Title
Impact of weight maintenance and loss on diabetes risk and burden: a population-based study in 33,184 participants
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BMC Public Health, February 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4081-6
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Adina L. Feldman, Simon J. Griffin, Amy L. Ahern, Grainne H. Long, Lars Weinehall, Eva Fhärm, Margareta Norberg, Patrik Wennberg

Abstract

Weight loss in individuals at high risk of diabetes is an effective prevention method and a major component of the currently prevailing diabetes prevention strategies. The aim of the present study was to investigate the public health potential for diabetes prevention of weight maintenance or moderate weight loss on a population level in an observational cohort with repeated measurements of weight and diabetes status. Height, weight and diabetes status were objectively measured at baseline and 10 year follow-up in a population-based cohort of 33,184 participants aged 30-60 years between 1990 and 2013 in Västerbotten County, Sweden. The association between risk of incident diabetes and change in BMI or relative weight was modelled using multivariate logistic regression. Population attributable fractions (PAF) were used to assess population impact of shift in weight. Mean (SD) BMI at baseline was 25.0 (3.6) kg/m(2). Increase in relative weight between baseline and follow-up was linearly associated with incident diabetes risk, odds ratio (OR) 1.05 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.04-1.06) per 1% change in weight. Compared to weight maintenance (±1.0 kg/m(2)), weight gain of > +1.0 kg/m(2) was associated with an increased risk of incident diabetes, OR 1.52 (95% CI 1.32, 1.74), representing a PAF of 21.9% (95% CI 15.8, 27.6%). For moderate weight loss (-1.0 to -2.0 kg/m(2)) the OR was 0.72 (95% CI 0.52, 0.99). Weight maintenance in adulthood is strongly associated with reduced incident diabetes risk and there is considerable potential for diabetes prevention in promoting this as a whole population strategy.

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Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 16%
Researcher 15 13%
Student > Bachelor 13 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 18 16%
Unknown 31 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 34%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 11%
Social Sciences 7 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 5%
Psychology 4 4%
Other 13 12%
Unknown 33 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 281. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 August 2022.
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