Assessing weight-related quality of life in adolescentsRonette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, 1004 Norwood Avenue, Durham, NC 27707, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:448-57. 2006
..The development of a new weight-related measure to assess quality of life in adolescents [Impact of Weight on Quality of Life (IWQOL)-Kids] is described...
Sexual functioning and obesity: a reviewRonette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:2325-33. 2012
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- Six-year changes in health-related quality of life in gastric bypass patients versus obese comparison groups
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 8:625-33. 2012
..Our objective was to evaluate the 6-year changes in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in gastric bypass (GB) patients versus 2 obese groups not undergoing surgical weight loss. The study setting was a bariatric surgery practice...
Obesity and sexual quality of lifeRonette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting 1004 Norwood Avenue, Durham, NC 27707, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:472-9. 2006
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- Performance of a weight-related measure of Quality of Life in a psychiatric sample
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, 1004 Norwood Avenue, Durham, NC 27707, USA
Qual Life Res 15:587-96. 2006
..The IWQOL-Lite is a reliable and valid measure for assessing weight-related quality of life in individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder...
- Impact of obesity on health-related quality of life in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:749-54. 2008
..This paper explores the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of individuals with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder as a function of obesity status...
- Changes in weight and weight-related quality of life in a multicentre, randomized trial of aripiprazole versus standard of care
Ronette L Kolotkin
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 804 W Trinity Avenue, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Eur Psychiatry 23:561-6. 2008
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- Health and health-related quality of life: differences between men and women who seek gastric bypass surgery
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, Durham, NC 27707, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 4:651-8; discussion 658-9. 2008
..Women seek bariatric surgery 5 times more often than men. Research on gender differences in HRQOL is limited, and the results are conflicting...
- Improvements in sexual quality of life after moderate weight loss
R L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, Durham, NC 27707, USA
Int J Impot Res 20:487-92. 2008
..The greatest improvements for women had occurred by 3 months and were observed in all dimensions, whereas for men only 'not feeling sexually attractive' showed marked improvement in this short time frame...
- One-year health-related quality of life outcomes in weight loss trial participants: comparison of three measures
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, 762 Ninth Street 563, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 7:53. 2009
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- Cardiorespiratory fitness and health-related quality of life in bariatric surgery patients
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, 762 Ninth Street 563, Durham, NC 27705, USA
Obes Surg 21:457-64. 2011
..Results suggest that CRF confers some HRQOL benefits in severely obese adults, though these benefits may largely be explained by differences in age, gender, and BMI...
- Predicting sleep apnea in bariatric surgery patients
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 7:605-10. 2011
..The present study evaluated the prediction model of Dixon et al. in 310 gastric bypass patients (mean BMI 46.8 kg/m(2), age 41.6 years, 84.5% women), with no preselection for OSA symptoms in a bariatric surgery partnership...
- The relationship between health-related quality of life and weight loss
R L Kolotkin
Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Obes Res 9:564-71. 2001
..This is a report of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) changes in obese patients completing at least 1 year of outpatient treatment in a weight reduction program combining phentermine-fenfluramine and dietary counseling...
- Development of a brief measure to assess quality of life in obesity
R L Kolotkin
Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Obes Res 9:102-11. 2001
..This report describes the development of a 31-item version of the IWQOL (IWQOL-Lite)...
- Effect of moderate weight loss on health-related quality of life: an analysis of combined data from 4 randomized trials of sibutramine vs placebo
G P Samsa
Departments of Community and Family Medicine, Center for Clinical Health Policy Research, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Am J Manag Care 7:875-83. 2001
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- Health-related quality of life in patients seeking gastric bypass surgery vs non-treatment-seeking controls
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, Durham, NC 27707, USA
Obes Surg 13:371-7. 2003
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- Health-related quality of life varies among obese subgroups
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, Durham, North Carolina 27707, USA
Obes Res 10:748-56. 2002
..To compare the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of overweight/obese individuals from different subgroups that vary in treatment-seeking status and treatment intensity...
- Two-year changes in health-related quality of life in gastric bypass patients compared with severely obese controls
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 5:250-6. 2009
..In a prospective study at a bariatric surgery practice, we evaluated the 2-year changes in HRQOL in gastric bypass patients compared with 2 severely obese groups who did not undergo surgical weight loss...
- Quality of life and obesity
R L Kolotkin
Duke University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Durham, NC, USA
Obes Rev 2:219-29. 2001
..Several obesity-specific instruments have also been developed and have shown great promise. The quality of life of obese individuals is an important issue that should be included in weight management treatment and research...
- Psychometric evaluation of the impact of weight on quality of life-lite questionnaire (IWQOL-lite) in a community sample
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, Durham, NC, USA
Qual Life Res 11:157-71. 2002
..As in previous studies conducted on treatment-seeking obese persons, the IWQOL-Lite appears to be a reliable and valid measure of obesity-specific quality of life in overweight/obese persons not seeking treatment...
- Does binge eating disorder impact weight-related quality of life?
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, 1004 Norwood Avenue, Durham, NC 27707, USA
Obes Res 12:999-1005. 2004
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- Binge eating, quality of life and physical activity improve after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity
Jarol Boan
Weight Loss Surgery Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
Obes Surg 14:341-8. 2004
..Severe obesity has been associated with disordered eating, impaired quality of life (QoL), and decreased physical activity. This study examines changes in these variables 6 months after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP)...
- Assessing weight-related quality of life in obese persons with type 2 diabetes
Ronette L Kolotkin
Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting, 1004 Norwood Avenue, Durham, NC 27707, USA
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 61:125-32. 2003
..We recommend the use of weight-related QOL measures in addition to generic and diabetes-specific measures when assessing quality of life in type 2 diabetes, particularly when patients are overweight or obese...
- Impact of weight loss and regain on quality of life: mirror image or differential effect?
Scott G Engel
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Obes Res 11:1207-13. 2003
..To compare the impact of weight regain and weight loss on health-related quality of life...
- Health-related quality of life in overweight and nonoverweight black and white adolescents
Erica M Fallon
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1103, USA
J Pediatr 147:443-50. 2005
..Future research is required to determine whether differences in QOL are predictive of treatment success...
- Development and psychometric validation of an eating disorder-specific health-related quality of life instrument
Scott G Engel
Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, North Dakota 58107, USA
Int J Eat Disord 39:62-71. 2006
..No such disease-specific instrument is currently available that applies to eating-disordered samples...
- An integrated method to determine meaningful changes in health-related quality of life
Ross D Crosby
Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, 700 First Avenue South, Fargo, North Dakota 58107, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 57:1153-60. 2004
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- Two measures of health-related quality of life in morbid obesity
Martina de Zwaan
The Neuropsychiatric Research Institute and the Department of Neuroscience, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Obes Res 10:1143-51. 2002
..Both HRQOL measures were able to reliably discriminate between patients with and without BED. Depression and self-esteem influenced HRQOL in a similar way as binge eating...
- Weight loss with self-help compared with a structured commercial program: a randomized trial
Stanley Heshka
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
JAMA 289:1792-8. 2003
..Although commercial weight loss programs provide treatment to millions of clients, their efficacy has not been evaluated in rigorous long-term trials...
- Estimating a preference-based single index for the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life-Lite (IWQOL-Lite) instrument from the SF-6D
John E Brazier
Sheffield Health Economics Group, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Value Health 7:490-8. 2004
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- Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of orlistat for weight loss in adolescents
David Maahs
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
Endocr Pract 12:18-28. 2006
..CONCLUSION: In this study of obese adolescents, orlistat did not significantly reduce BMI in comparison with placebo at 6 months...
- Gender, race, and obesity-related quality of life at extreme levels of obesity
Marney A White
Weight Management Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Charleston 29424, USA
Obes Res 12:949-55. 2004
..DISCUSSION: Various domains of QOL may be differentially affected by degree of obesity; these relationships are not homogeneous throughout the obese population...
- Health-related quality of life before and after bariatric surgery in adolescents
Tara J Loux
Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
J Pediatr Surg 43:1275-9. 2008
..Health-related quality of life is markedly improved after bariatric surgery in adults. Little HRQL data are available in adolescents undergoing bariatric surgery...
- Defining clinically meaningful change in health-related quality of life
Ross D Crosby
Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, 700 First Avenue South, Fargo, ND 58107, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 56:395-407. 2003
..We propose a new terminology for describing meaningful change derived from anchor-based and distribution-based methods...
- Design and rationale of the Utah obesity study. A study to assess morbidity following gastric bypass surgery
Ted D Adams
University of Utah School of Medicine, Cardiovascular Genetics Research Program, Cardiology Division, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 26:534-51. 2005
..This study is designed to assess the effectiveness of GBP in reducing morbidity and maintaining weight loss. A wide array of clinical tests and psycho-behavioral questionnaires are included as part of the study...
