1. Effects of diet and exercise on weight-related outcomes for breast cancer survivors and their adult daughters: an analysis of the DAMES trial.
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Tometich, Danielle, Mosher, Catherine, Winger, Joseph, Badr, Hoda, Snyder, Denise, Sloane, Richard, Demark-Wahnefried, Wendy, Tometich, Danielle B, Mosher, Catherine E, Winger, Joseph G, Badr, Hoda J, Snyder, Denise C, and Sloane, Richard J
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DIET ,PHYSIOLOGY ,EXERCISE physiology ,BREAST cancer ,ADULT children ,WEIGHT loss ,BODY weight ,BREAST tumors ,EXERCISE ,MOTHERS ,RESEARCH funding ,DISEASE complications - Abstract
Purpose: Few trials have aimed to promote diet and exercise behaviors in both cancer survivors and their family members and examine their associations with weight-related outcomes. We conducted a secondary analysis to examine associations between change in diet and exercise behaviors and weight-related outcomes for overweight breast cancer survivors and their overweight adult daughters in the Daughters And MothErS Against Breast Cancer (DAMES) randomized trial.Methods: The DAMES trial assessed the impact of two iteratively tailored, mailed print diet and exercise interventions against standard brochures over a 12-month period. This analysis examined change in diet and exercise behaviors and weight-related variables from baseline to post-intervention for the 50 breast cancer survivors and their adult daughters randomized to the intervention arms. To reduce the potential for type II error in this pilot, p values <0.10 were considered statistically significant.Results: For mothers, change in diet quality was uniquely related to change in BMI (β = -0.12, p = 0.082), weight (β = -0.12, p = 0.060), and waist circumference (β = -0.38, p = 0.001), whereas change in caloric intake was related to waist circumference (β = 0.21, p = 0.002). For daughters, change in caloric intake was related to change in waist circumference (β = 0.12, p = 0.055). However, change in diet quality was not associated with weight-related outcomes in daughters. Additionally, change in exercise was not associated with weight-related outcomes in mothers or daughters.Conclusions: Findings support mail-based and other tailored interventions for weight loss in this population, with an emphasis on diet quality for breast cancer survivors and caloric intake for their adult daughters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2017
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