Marshfield Clinic Researchers Join National Obesity Study
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 -- 8:41 AM
-Marshfield Clinic researchers and doctors are looking for new, more effective ways to treat obesity in rural communities as part of a 5-year, $10 million national study.Nearly 20% of the U.S. population lives in rural communities, where obesity is disproportionally present. Rural communities clearly have less access to effective weight management programs as compared to people living in larger cities.
For that reason, this study will compare three different approaches to obesity treatment with the goal of helping patients achieve weight loss over two years. Researchers also will focus on improvements in patients' laboratory results, quality of life, sleep quality and levels of stress.
The study is supported by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a nonprofit tasked with improving the quality of relevance of health care information available to patients. as part of PCORI's Greater Plains Collaborative, Marshfield Clinic partner with health care providers in Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa in this study. The University of Kansas Medical Center will lead the study.
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