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. 2019 Dec 4;19:1089. doi: 10.1186/s12885-019-6279-8

Table 2.

Uptake, retention and weight loss in the breast cancer and multiple disease prevention programmes in the two studies

Study-1 Women informed of their breast cancer risk prior to invite to the weight loss programme Study-2 Women informed of their breast cancer risk part way through the weight loss programme
Breast cancer prevention programme Multiple disease prevention programme Total/average Breast cancer prevention programme Multiple disease prevention programme Total/average
Invited n 508 848 1356 349 389 738
Uptake n (%) 81 (10%) 45 (9%) 126 (9%) 26 (7%) 26 (7%) 52 (7)%
Retention at 12 months n (%) 33 (73%) 53 (65%) 86 (68%) 12 (46%) 12 (46%) 24 (46%)
Weight loss kga −6.2 (−7.7 to 4.7) kg −6.0 (− 7.9 to – 4.1) − 6.2 (− 7.3 to −5.0) −3.5 (−5.9 to −1.1) −2.9 (− 5.8 to −0.9) kg − 3.2 (− 5.0 to – 1.4)
% Losing ≥5% weight n (%) 46 (57%) 26 (58%) 72 (57%) 7 (27%) 5 (19%) 12 (23%)

a Baseline observation carried forward weight loss mean change (95% CI)