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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Intern Med. 2019 Apr 23;170(10):682–690. doi: 10.7326/M18-1605

Figure 1. Patterns of weight changes over 15 years.

Figure 1.

(A) Shown is the observed percent weight loss over 15 years for all participants by treatment group and for the subsets of participants who achieved <5% or ≥5% weight loss at Year 1. Data shown are Mean ± 95% Confidence Intervals (CI). (B) Shown are the observed percentages of participants by treatment group achieving ≥5% weight loss yearly during Years 2–15 among participants who achieved ≥5% weight loss at Year 1. Data shown are Mean ± 95% CI. Sample sizes: Metformin Year 1: 289, Year 5: 247, Year 10: 236. Year 15: 172. Intensive Lifestyle: Year 1: 640, Year 5: 540, Year 10: 491, Year 15: 373. Placebo: Year 1: 137, Year 5: 110, Year 10: 104, Year 15: 92.