Extended follow-up of a short total diet replacement programme: results of the Doctor Referral of Overweight People to Low Energy total diet replacement Treatment (DROPLET) randomised controlled trial at 3 years.
Nerys M AstburyRhiannon M EdwardsFitsum GhebretinseaMilensu ShanyindeJill MollisonPaul N AveyardSusan A JebbPublished in: International journal of obesity (2005) (2021)
Treatment of people with obesity with a TDR programme compared with support from a practice nurse leads to greater weight loss which persists to at least 3 years, but there was only evidence of sustained improvements in BP and not in other aspects of cardiometabolic risk.