Observation of the long-term effects of lifestyle intervention during balneotherapy in metabolic syndrome.

Henri Gin, Jean-Louis Demeaux, Angela Grelaud, Adeline Grolleau, Cécile Droz-Perroteau, Philip Robinson, Régis Lassalle, Abdelilah Abouelfath, Michel Boisseau, Christian Toussaint, Nicholas Moore

Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.

Thérapie 2013 May-Jun

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Estimate the effect of lifestyle adjustment activities in patients with metabolic syndrome treated by prescribed balneotherapy. Observational pilot cohort study with 12-month follow-up after multidimensional lifestyle training (physical, dietary, educational) during 3-week standard stay in the spa town of Eugénie-les-Bains. Of 145 eligible patients, 97 were included; 63 were followed and analysable. At inclusion all had ≥3 National cholesterol education program-Adult treatment panel III (NCEP-ATPIII) criteria defining metabolic syndrome, 76.2% were female, mean age was 61.2 years. At the end of follow-up (median:10.4 months, Inter-Quartile Range: [6.7;11.4]), 48 of these 63 patients (76.2%) no longer had metabolic syndrome (95%CI [65.7;86.7]). These 48 patients without metabolic syndrome at the end of follow-up represented 49.5% of the 97 included (95%CI [39.5;59.4]). Future studies of lifestyle interventions taking advantage of the spa environment can be expected to find least one third of patients free of metabolic syndrome at the end of 12-month follow-up in the intervention group. © 2013 Société Française de Pharmacologie et de Thérapeutique.

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Henri Gin, Jean-Louis Demeaux, Angela Grelaud, Adeline Grolleau, Cécile Droz-Perroteau, Philip Robinson, Régis Lassalle, Abdelilah Abouelfath, Michel Boisseau, Christian Toussaint, Nicholas Moore. Observation of the long-term effects of lifestyle intervention during balneotherapy in metabolic syndrome. Thérapie. 2013 May-Jun;68(3):163-7