MRC Epidemiology Unit
Yesterday Professor Simon Griffin accepted the Paper of the Year award at the Royal College of General Practitioners annual conference on behalf of lead author Dr Amy Ahern and coauthors […]
Weight loss treatments are not a permanent fix – that doesn’t mean they ‘don’t work’
In this article originally published in The Conversation, Dr Amy Ahern and Professor Giles Yeo discuss why is it so difficult to keep the weight off after you’ve lost it. […]
That’s a WRAP: assessing the long term impact of a commercial weight management programme
A study released today in Lancet Public Health examines the long term effect of 12 and 52 week commercial weight management programmes. The results show that the 52 week programme […]
Opinion: Increasing community weight loss programme commissioning won’t be cheap, but could pay dividends
Community weight loss programmes, such as Weight Watchers, are effective at helping people to lose weight, our latest research shows. We found that a three-month programme helps people lose weight, […]
Extending weight loss programmes can help people who are overweight keep more weight off, and is cost-effective
Offering a year-long programme of weight loss classes could prevent an additional 1,786 cases of disease (hypertension, diabetes, heart disease) for every 100,000 people compared to a 12-week programme. Extending […]