Older age does not influence the success of weight loss through the implementation of lifestyle modification

Objective Age is sometimes a barrier for acceptance of patients into a hospital‐based obesity service. Our aim was to explore the effect of age on the ability to lose weight through lifestyle interventions, implemented within a hospital‐based obesity service. Design Retrospective study. Patients We included a cohort of randomly selected patients with morbid obesity (n = 242), who attended our hospital‐based obesity service during 2005‐2016 and received only lifestyle weight loss interventions. Measurements Primary outcome measures were percentage weight loss (%WL) and percentage reduction in body mass index (%rBMI) following implemented lifestyle interventions. Data were stratified according to patient age at referral: group 1 (age