Results
From October 1, 2018, to January 31, 2020, 300 patients were referred and showed at the one-day-a-week obesity program at a university primary care clinic (Table 1). At baseline (their first visit), Patients reported an average age of 48 years, BMI of 39, over 2 of any comorbidities and 1.8 types of medications, and 85% were female. The average age of patients who visited the program two or more times was about 50 years old, which is significantly older than those who visited only once (age=48) (p=0.03). The former group had about two medications prescribed (mean=2.2), more than the latter group did (mean=1.2) (p<0.01). There were other statistical differences in other characteristics between these two groups.
Table 1 . Characteristics of Patients who attended an obesity program in a primary care clinic between November 2018 to January 2020 (n=300)