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Table 2B.

Articles excluded from meta-analysis after qualitative synthesis.

Reason for Exclusion	N	Articles Excluded
Study included a cognitive intervention to modify weight loss goals	1	Wadden (2003)³³
Utilized a duplicate study sample as a more recently published study	1	Grave (2004)⁵⁶
Assessment of the correlation between weight loss goals and final weight loss not available and provision of data to calculate the correlation was not provided (requests sent by email and mail)	2	Foster (1997)⁷ Jeffery (1998)⁵⁷
Total	4