Long-Term Weight Loss Effects of a Behavioral Weight Management Program: Does the Community Food Environment Matter?

ABSTRACT: This study examined whether community food environments altered the longer-term effects of a nationwide behavioral weight management program on body mass index (BMI). The sample was comprised of 98,871 male weight management program participants and 15,385 female participants, as well as 461,302 and 37,192 inverse propensity-score weighted matched male and female controls. We measured the community food environment by counting the number of supermarkets, convenience stores, and fast food restaurants within a 1-mile radius around each person's home address. We used difference-in-difference regression models with person and calendar time fixed effects to estimate MOVE! effects over time in sub-populations defined by community food environment attributes. Among men, after an initial decrease

SUBMITTER: Zenk SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5858280 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature