TY - JOUR
T1 - Sex-specific physical activity patterns differentiate weight loss maintainers from regainers
T2 - The medweight study
AU - Poulimeneas, Dimitrios
AU - Maraki, Maria I.
AU - Karfopoulou, Eleni
AU - Koutras, Yannis
AU - Chrysostomou, Stavrie
AU - Anastasiou, Costas A.
AU - Kavouras, Stavros A.
AU - Yannakoulia, Mary
N1 - Funding Information:
The MedWeight study was initialy funded by the Coca-Cola Foundation (2012-2015, KA 221). Dimitrios Poulimeneas received funding from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (MIS 5000432). The authors have no competing interests to declare.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Human Kinetics, Inc.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Background: Although plenty of evidence indicates that weight loss maintainers are highly physically active, studies focusing on the sex-specific differences in activity levels between maintainers and regainers are scarce. The authors aimed to investigate sex-specific differences in activity patterns in a cohort of Mediterranean maintainers and regainers. Methods: Sample includes 756 participants of the MedWeight registry (60.5% women), aged 18–65 years, who lost ≥10% of their initial weight, and either maintained their loss for ≥12 months or regained it. Participants completed a series of questionnaires, including demographics and weight history. Activity levels were evaluated with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-short version. Results: Maintainers of both sexes were, in total, more active than their same-sex regainers. When specific activities were considered, women maintainers spent more time walking than regainers (Padjusted = .02), whereas men maintainers spent more time in vigorous activities (Padjusted = .001) and walking than regainers (Padjusted = .001). Modest increments in activity of sex-relevant intensity were associated with increased odds for maintenance. Conclusions: Maintainers attained a more active lifestyle than their same-sex regainers, involving more walking for both sexes and more vigorous activities for men. The detected differences, according to activity intensity, support that activity patterns associated with successful weight loss are distinguishable between sexes.
AB - Background: Although plenty of evidence indicates that weight loss maintainers are highly physically active, studies focusing on the sex-specific differences in activity levels between maintainers and regainers are scarce. The authors aimed to investigate sex-specific differences in activity patterns in a cohort of Mediterranean maintainers and regainers. Methods: Sample includes 756 participants of the MedWeight registry (60.5% women), aged 18–65 years, who lost ≥10% of their initial weight, and either maintained their loss for ≥12 months or regained it. Participants completed a series of questionnaires, including demographics and weight history. Activity levels were evaluated with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-short version. Results: Maintainers of both sexes were, in total, more active than their same-sex regainers. When specific activities were considered, women maintainers spent more time walking than regainers (Padjusted = .02), whereas men maintainers spent more time in vigorous activities (Padjusted = .001) and walking than regainers (Padjusted = .001). Modest increments in activity of sex-relevant intensity were associated with increased odds for maintenance. Conclusions: Maintainers attained a more active lifestyle than their same-sex regainers, involving more walking for both sexes and more vigorous activities for men. The detected differences, according to activity intensity, support that activity patterns associated with successful weight loss are distinguishable between sexes.
KW - Obesity
KW - Weight loss maintenance
KW - Weight regain
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U2 - 10.1123/jpah.2019-0407
DO - 10.1123/jpah.2019-0407
M3 - Article
C2 - 31923902
AN - SCOPUS:85079766153
SN - 1543-3080
VL - 17
SP - 225
EP - 229
JO - Journal of Physical Activity and Health
JF - Journal of Physical Activity and Health
IS - 2
ER -