Obesity

Associations of obesity phenotypes with weight change, cardiometabolic benefits, and type 2 diabetes incidence during a lifestyle intervention: results from the PREVIEW study

Int J Obes (Lond)Published Post-hoc analysis of the PREVIEW randomised trial

Authors' conclusion

Individuals with MUO had greater improvements in some cardiometabolic risk factors during the low-energy diet phase, but had smaller improvements during long-term lifestyle intervention than those with MHO.

Study context

Population
Participants with overweight/obesity in the PREVIEW randomised trial undergoing a lifestyle intervention
Participants
1,012 vs 1,153
Comparison
Metabolically healthy overweight/obesity (MHO) vs metabolically unhealthy overweight/obesity (MUO)
  • MHOn = 1,012
  • MUOn = 1,153reference
Primary endpoint
Change in body weight (%)
Follow-up
156 weeks
Methodological details8-week low-energy diet followed by 148-week lifestyle-based weight-maintenance intervention, adjusted linear mixed models, Cox proportional hazards regression
  • 8-week low-energy diet followed by 148-week lifestyle-based weight-maintenance intervention
  • Adjusted linear mixed models
  • Cox proportional hazards regression

Primary result

As reported in the abstract

Weight loss (%) · end of study (156 weeks)

Further findings

OutcomeEstimateP value
Triglyceride change · after low-energy diet phaseSmaller decreases with MHOmean difference 0.08 mmol·L-1 (95% CI 0.04–0.12)P < 0.001
Triglyceride change · end of weight maintenanceGreater reductions with MHOmean difference −0.08 mmol·L-1 (CI −0.12--0.04)P < 0.001
2-hour glucose change · end of weight maintenanceGreater reductions with MHOdifference −0.28 mmol·L-1 (CI −0.41--0.16)P < 0.001
OutcomeaHR (CI)P value
T2D incidence · 3 years0.37 (0.20–0.66)P < 0.001

Triglyceride change · after low-energy diet phase

Similar reductions in fasting glucose and HOMA-IR in MHO vs MUO

Triglyceride change · end of weight maintenance

Greater reductions in fasting glucose and HOMA-IR with MHO vs MUO

Diastolic blood pressure, HbA1c and HDL-C · after weight loss and end of weight maintenance

MHO had smaller decreases in diastolic blood pressure and HbA1c and greater decreases in HDL-C after weight loss vs MUO; significant differences disappeared at end of weight maintenance

Original publication

Associations of obesity phenotypes with weight change, cardiometabolic benefits, and type 2 diabetes incidence during a lifestyle intervention: results from the PREVIEW study. Int J Obes (Lond). Published 7 July 2023. doi:10.1038/s41366-023-01328-y

Composed by AI from the published abstract and checked against it. How Briefs are made →

Get them every week

New studies on this topic in My Week and in your Monday e-mail.

We e-mail you a sign-in link and a code. No password, no spam.