Study Details

Weight in Secondary Prevention — WISP

Adrianne C. Feldstein, Principal Investigator
Gregory A. Nichols, Nancy A. Perrin,David H. Smith, Co-investigators

 This study is using two large, population-based registries of high-risk patients with coronary artery disease and diabetes to describe the patients’ characteristics and treatments associated with body mass index. This study is also determining how weight loss affects these diseases after one, three, and five years. This study is beginning to describe obesity-related behaviors in real world settings and how weight loss prevention programs targeting high-risk individuals can influence health. This study is also determining how weight loss affects high-risk individuals’ health care utilization and the costs of this care.
Funding source: National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases

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