Journal of internal medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Weight loss and improved metabolic outcomes amongst rural African American women in the Deep South: six-month outcomes from a community-based randomized trial.
Obesity is highly prevalent in African American women, especially those in the rural southern USA, resulting in persistent health disparities. ⋯ Trained lay health staff and volunteers from the rural southern USA were able to deliver a translation of a high-intensity behavioural intervention targeted to African American women, resulting in clinically meaningful weight loss and improvement in other metabolic outcomes in a significant proportion of participants.