@article{9dc75c5bca2a473785fb2f71771de41d,
title = "Technical report: an online international weight control registry to inform precision approaches to healthy weight management",
abstract = "Background: Personalizing approaches to prevention and treatment of obesity will be a crucial aspect of precision health initiatives. However, in considering individual susceptibility to obesity, much remains to be learned about how to support healthy weight management in different population subgroups, environments and geographical locations. Subjects/methods: The International Weight Control Registry (IWCR) has been launched to facilitate a deeper and broader understanding of the spectrum of factors contributing to success and challenges in weight loss and weight loss maintenance in individuals and across population groups. The IWCR registry aims to recruit, enroll and follow a diverse cohort of adults with varying rates of success in weight management. Data collection methods include questionnaires of demographic variables, weight history, and behavioral, cultural, economic, psychological, and environmental domains. A subset of participants will provide objective measures of physical activity, weight, and body composition along with detailed reports of dietary intake. Lastly, participants will be able to provide qualitative information in an unstructured format on additional topics they feel are relevant, and environmental data will be obtained from public sources based on participant zip code. Conclusions: The IWCR will be a resource for researchers to inform improvements in interventions for weight loss and weight loss maintenance in different countries, and to examine environmental and policy-level factors that affect weight management in different population groups. This large scale, multi-level approach aims to inform efforts to reduce the prevalence of obesity worldwide and its associated comorbidities and economic impacts. Trial registration: NCT04907396 (clinicaltrials.gov) sponsor SB Roberts; Tufts University IRB #13075.",
author = "Roberts, {Susan B.} and Das, {Sai Krupa} and Sayer, {R. Drew} and Caldwell, {Ann E.} and Wyatt, {Holly R.} and Mehta, {Tapan S.} and Gorczyca, {Anna M.} and Oslund, {Jennifer L.} and Peters, {John C.} and Friedman, {James E.} and Chiu, {Chia Ying} and Greenway, {Frank L.} and Donnelly, {Joseph E.} and Dao, {Maria Carlota} and Cuevas, {Adolfo G.} and Olivia Affuso and Wilkinson, {Larrell L.} and Diana Thomas and Ebaa Al-Ozairi and Mary Yannakoulia and Khazrai, {Yeganeh M.} and Manalac, {Raoul J.} and Vasil Bachiashvili and Hill, {James O.}",
note = "Funding Information: The initial IWCR launch in the United States is funded by a grant from the NIH awarded to the Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) at the University of Alabama Birmingham (NIH project number 3P30DK056336-19S1, primary sponsor for JOH); a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture awarded to Tufts University (USDA/ARS project number 8050-51000-105-00D, primary sponsor for SBR); a grant from the NIH awarded to the University of Colorado NORC (NIH project number 2P30DK048520-26, secondary sponsor); U54 GM104940 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health which funds the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center; and a small, 1-year unrestricted gift from Gelesis Inc. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Department of Agriculture or the National Institutes of Health, and none of the sponsors had any role in study design, collection, management, analysis and interpretation of data or writing this report or decision to submit for publication. We thank Lee Busch for expert help in designing the participant-facing communications for the IWCR. We also thank Nutrition Action for providing newsletters for the recruitment launch. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.",
year = "2022",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1038/s41366-022-01158-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "46",
pages = "1728--1733",
journal = "International Journal of Obesity",
issn = "0307-0565",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "9",
}