Data are for patients who completed 2 years and 10 years of the study. The bars and the values above the bars indicate unadjusted rates of recovery; vertical bars represent the corresponding 95% confidence intervals. The odds ratios, confidence intervals, and P values have been adjusted for sex, age, and body-mass index at the time of inclusion in the intervention study.

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