Table 1.
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients by treatment group, data are means (SD) or numbers (%).
| Group 1 N = 99 |
Group 2 N = 100 |
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| Age (years) | 47.3 (10.5) | 47.4 (10.1) |
| Weight (kg) | 120.6 (23.5) | 117.8 (22.0) |
| Height (m) | 1.69 (0.10) | 1.69 (0.08) |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 42.1 (5.7) | 41.4 (6.4) |
| Female | 71 (72%) | 71 (71%) |
| Married/living together | 60 (72%) | 56 (78%) |
| Childhood obesity | 33 (33%) | 39 (39%) |
| Earlier lost >10 kg | ||
| Never | 22 (22%) | 28 (28%) |
| Once | 49 (49%) | 46 (46%) |
| Twice or more | 28 (28%) | 26 (26%) |
| Smoking | 32 (32%) | 26 (26%) |
| Basic education | ||
| Primary school | 30 (31%) | 25 (25%) |
| Comprehensive school | 43 (44%) | 55 (55%) |
| High school | 25 (26%) | 20 (20%) |
| Professional education | ||
| No | 12 (13%) | 12 (12%) |
| Vocational courses | 30 (32%) | 31 (32%) |
| Vocational school | 17 (18%) | 21 (22%) |
| College | 29 (31%) | 24 (25%) |
| University | 7 (7%) | 9 (9%) |
| Employed | 64 (65%) | 70 (70%) |
| Diabetes medication | 11 (11%) | 22 (22%) |
| Hypertension medication | 45 (45%) | 49 (49%) |
| Lipid medication | 12 (12%) | 14 (14%) |
| Asthma medication | 15 (15%) | 12 (12%) |
| Psychiatric diagnosis | 16 (16%) | 14 (14%) |
| Sleep apnoea diagnosed | 6 (6%) | 18 (18%) |
| Leisure time exercise twice weekly or more | 27 (28%) | 37 (38%) |
| Eating three meals daily | 53 (54%) | 56 (57%) |
| Choosing low fat food daily | 44 (45%) | 46 (47%) |
| Weighing weekly | 32 (33%) | 41 (42%) |