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Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2011 Nov 15;365(21):1959–1968. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1108660

Table 3.

Proportion of Participants Who Met Various Weight-Loss Criteria at 6 and 24 Months of Follow-up.

Criterion	Control	Remote Support Only	In-Person Support	P Value
				Remote Support Only vs. Control	In-Person Support vs. Control	In-Person Support vs. Remote Support Only
	no. of participants/total no. (%)
At or below baseline weight

6 mo	75/113 (66.4)	110/129 (85.3)	105/124 (84.7)	<0.001	0.001	0.84

24 mo	67/128 (52.3)	101/131 (77.1)	99/133 (74.4)	<0.001	<0.001	0.81

At least 5% below baseline weight

6 mo	16/113 (14.2)	68/129 (52.7)	57/124 (46.0)	<0.001	<0.001	0.23

24 mo	24/128 (18.8)	50/131 (38.2)	55/133 (41.4)	<0.001	<0.001	0.73

At least 10% below baseline weight

6 mo	4/113 (3.5)	30/129 (23.3)	31/124 (25.0)	<0.001	<0.001	0.92

24 mo	11/128 (8.6)	24/131 (18.3)	26/133 (19.5)	0.02	0.01	0.69

BMI <30

6 mo	12/113 (10.6)	36/129 (27.9)	27/124 (21.8)	<0.001	0.02	0.22

24 mo	10/128 (7.8)	36/131 (27.5)	25/133 (18.8)	<0.001	0.01	0.07