Asia Pacific Family Medicine

Table 6 Comparison of weight change at the 1-year follow up between before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake

From: Interventions for body weight reduction in obese patients during short consultations: an open-label randomized controlled trial in the Japanese primary care setting

				Total
		Before the earthquake	After the earthquake	Total
Intervention group	Number of participants	9	9	18
Intervention group	Weight change (kg)^a	−0.4 kg	−0.7 kg	−0.5 kg
Control group	Number of participants	11	11	22
Control group	Weight change (kg)^a	−1.0 kg	−0.6 kg	−0.8 kg
Total	Number of participants	20	20	40
Total	Weight change (kg)^a	−0.7 kg	−0.6 kg	−0.7 kg

^aMean weight change between baseline and the 1-year follow up

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