Table 4.

Biometric outcomes: changes from baseline to six and thirty weeks

Factor	Week 6 change from baseline (N = 404)		Week 30 change from baseline (N = 244)
	Mean ± SD	P valuea	Mean ± SD	P valuea
Weight (kg)	-3.8 ± 2.6	< 0.001	-6.8 ± 6.9c	< 0.001
Waist (cm)	-4.2 ± 4.2b	< 0.001	-6.1 ± 7.3d	< 0.001
SBP (mmHg)	-5.1 ± 15.5	< 0.001	-2.5 ± 17.1e	0.022
DBP(mmHg)	-3.2 ± 9.6	< 0.001	-2.5 ± 10.0e	< 0.001
HR (bpm)	-5.3 ± 11.5c	< 0.001	-5.3 ± 11.5	< 0.001
BMI (kg/m2)	-1.3 ± 0.9	< 0.001	-2.4 ± 2.4c	< 0.001

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; HR, heart rate.

^a P value from paired t-test, significant if P < 0.025.

^{b, c, d, e} indicate 3, 1, 6 and 2 missing data points, respectively.