Gregg, Edward W. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2381-6822
Chen, Haiying
Bancks, Michael P.
Manalac, Raoul
Maruthur, Nisa
Munshi, Medha
Wing, Rena
,
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK57136, DK57149, DK56990, DK57177, DK57171, DK571)
Article History
Received: 11 February 2023
Accepted: 28 September 2023
First Online: 18 January 2024
Data availability
: Look AHEAD data are available on request from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) data repository (ExternalRef removed).
: The Look AHEAD study was funded by the National Institutes of Health through cooperative agreements with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK57136, DK57149, DK56990, DK57177, DK57171, DK57151, DK57182, DK57131, DK57002, DK57078, DK57154, DK57178, DK57219, DK57008, DK57135 and DK56992) Additional funding was provided by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This research was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The Indian Health Service provided personnel, medical oversight and use of facilities. The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Indian Health Service or other funding sources. Additional support was received from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Bayview General Clinical Research Center (M01RR02719), the Massachusetts General Hospital Mallinckrodt General Clinical Research Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology General Clinical Research Center (M01RR01066), the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (RR025758-04), the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center General Clinical Research Center (M01RR00051) and Clinical Nutrition Research Unit (P30 DK48520), the University of Tennessee at Memphis General Clinical Research Center (M01RR0021140), the University of Pittsburgh General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) (M01RR000056), the Clinical Translational Research Center funded by Clinical & Translational Science Award UL1 RR 024153 and NIH grant DK 046204, the VA Puget Sound Health Care System Medical Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs and the Frederic C. Bartter General Clinical Research Center (M01RR01346). The following organisations have committed to make major contributions to the Look AHEAD programme: FedEx Corporation, Health Management Resources, LifeScan Inc. (a Johnson & Johnson Company), OPTIFAST® of Nestle HealthCare Nutrition Inc., Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Abbott Nutrition and the Slim-Fast brand of Unilever North America. Some of the information contained herein was derived from data provided by the Bureau of Vital Statistics, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. EWG is supported by the Science Foundation Ireland (grant number 22/RP/10091), the UK National Institute of Health Research and the UK Royal Society.
: The authors declare that there are no relationships or activities that might bias, or be perceived to bias, their work.
: EWG conceptualised and led the writing of the manuscript. HC performed the analyses. HC, MPB, RM, NM, MM and RW all contributed to researching, editing and revising key content. All authors approved the final version to be published. EWG is the guarantor of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.