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Table 5 Effect of Birmingham Own Health® Intervention on BMI among people with diabetes

From: An evaluation of Birmingham Own Health®telephone care management service among patients with poorly controlled diabetes. a retrospective comparison with the General Practice Research Database

 

Intervention

Control

Multivariate linear

regression coefficients

(95%CI)

N

307

2738

 

Mean age (years) (SD)

63.1 (12.3)

64.0 (11.1)

-0.03 (-0.04, -0.02)

Males (n (%))

166 (54.1)

1457 (53.2)

-0.15 (-0.38, 0.07)

Smoking status

   

Never smoker

111 (36.2%)

1130 (41.3%)

1.0

Ex-smoker

108 (35.2%)

1274 (46.5%)

0.23 (-0.01, 0.47)

Current smoker

44 (14.3%)

334 (12.2%)

-0.23 (-0.59, 0.11)

Unknown

44 (14.3%)

-

 

Length of follow-up (days)

   

Mean (SD)

296.2 (139.1)

307.3 (131.4)

0.0002 (-0.0007, 0.001)

Median (IQR)

314 (191, 390)

298 (173, 390)

 

Baseline BMI (kg/m2)

Mean (SD)

31.2 (7.1)

30.9 (7.3)

0.90 (0.88, 0.91)

Sub-groups (n (%))

   

< 25

49 (16.0%)

424 (15.5%)

 

25-29

97 (31.6%)

938 (34.3%)

 

30-34

85 (27.7%)

765 (27.9%)

 

35-39

50 (16.3%)

360 (13.1%)

 

> 40

26 (8.5%)

251 (9.2%)

 

Final BMI (kg/m2) (mean) (SD)

30.7 (6.4)

31.1 (7.3)

 

Mean change in BMI (kg/m2) (SD)

-0.5 (3.6)

0.2 (3.0)

 

Difference in final BMI (kg/m2) (intervention - control) (95% CI)

-0.4 (-1.3, 0.4)

 

Adjusted mean difference in final BMI between intervention and control (kg/m 2 ) (95%CI)*

-0.7 (-1.0, -0.3)

Adjusted mean difference in final BMI between intervention and control by sub-group of baseline values (kg/m2) (95%CI)

 

< 25

0.5 (-0.2, 1.2)

25-29

-0.5 (-0.8, -0.2)

30-34

-0.7 (-1.4. 0.0)

35-39

-1.4 (-2.1, -0.6)

≥ 40

-2.9 (-5.7, -0.1)

  1. * adjusted for age, sex, baseline values, smoking status, length of follow-up