Table 1. Clinical and metabolic characteristic of people who maintained and did not maintain weight loss during follow-up.

	Baseline			Change from baseline to year 1			Change from year 1 to year 3
	Maintainers	Non-maintainers	p value	Maintainers	Non-maintainers	p value	Maintainers	Non-maintainers	p value
	Mean (SD1)	Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
Age	58.0 (12.2)	54.7 (9.6)	0.203
Weight (kg)	84.9 (14.4)	82.8 (15)	0.568	-4.47 (6.63)	-4.02 (3.97)	0.714	-2.07 (2.25)	4.23 (3.69)	<0.001
BMI2 (kg/m2)	31.2 (4.2)	31.3 (5.2)	0.916	-1.74 (2.36)	-1.47 (1.37)	0.548	-0.69 (0.93)	1.63 (1.44)	<0.001
WC3 (cm)	99.1 (9.9)	95.5 (11.6)	0.185	-5.93 (5.25)	-4.72 (5.12)	0.338	0.67 (6.02)	4.39 (4.39)	0.007
SBP4 (mmHg)	131.6 (13.4)	132 (14.9)	0.907	-1.65 (12.19)	-4.57 (18.27)	0.463	2.67 (17.58)	3.49 (16.28)	0.84
DBP5 (mmHg)	80.8 (7.1)	81.8 (9.7)	0.628	-1.09 (7.36)	-2.86 (9.48)	0.409	-0.41 (6.73)	1.58 (9.47)	0.343
Fasting glucose (mmol/l)	5.2 (0.6)	5.2 (0.8)	0.438	0.1 (0.52)	0.27 (0.74)	0.311	-0.05 (0.62)	-0.12 (0.91)	0.729
2-hour glucose (mmol/l)	5.5 (1.4)	5.8 (1.9)	0.946	0.37 (1.64)	0.07 (2.37)	0.56	0.11 (1.59)	0.34 (1.68)	0.566
TCH6 (mmol/l)	5.5 (1.0)	5.5 (0.8)	0.878	-0.17 (-0.95)	-0.18 (1.18)	0.977	0.02 (1.17)	-0.11 (1.12)	0.643
HDL7 (mmol/l)	1.4 (0.3)	1.4 (0.4)	0.733	-0.04 (0.32)	-0.04 (0.27)	0.982	-0.08 (0.31)	0.02 (0.65)	0.459
TG8 (mmol/l)	1.9 (1.4)	1.5 (0.7)	0.925	-0.31 (1.23)	0.08 (0.74)	0.091	0.03 (0.67)	-0.09 (0.71)	0.481
FINDRISC9	19.2 (2.6)	18.3 (3)	0.225	-3.41 (3.78)	-2.91 (3.41)	0.567	0.15 (2.93)\	0.7 (4.47)	0.572

¹Standard deviation

²Body mass index

³Waist circumference

⁴Systolic blood pressure

⁵Diastolic blood pressure

⁶Total cholesterol

⁷High density lipoprotein

⁸Triglycerides

⁹Finnish Diabetes Risk Score