Evidence reviews
Evidence reviews 2025
The following documents contain the evidence that was used to develop the 2025 recommendations:
- D: Identifying overweight and obesity in children, young people and adults
- E: Increasing uptake of weight management services in children, young people and adults
- F: Effectiveness of different diets in achieving and maintaining weight loss
- G: Effectiveness and acceptability of weight management interventions in children and young people living with overweight and obesity
- H: Effectiveness of healthy living programmes in preventing overweight and obesity in children and young people
- I: Psychological approaches to address weight stigma in children, young people and adults
Other supporting evidence
- Economic model report
- Inequality analysis of health outcomes of different diets in achieving and maintaining weight loss
- Methods
Evidence reviews 2023
These evidence reviews support the [2023] recommendations.
Obesity: identification, assessment and management (CG189, November 2014)
Evidence reviews 2022
These evidence reviews support the [2022] and [2022, amended 2025] recommendations.
Obesity: identification, assessment and management (CG189, November 2014)
- A: Accuracy of anthropometric measures in assessing health risks associated with overweight and obesity in adults
- B: Accuracy of anthropometric measures in assessing health risks associated with overweight and obesity in children and young people
Evidence reviews 2015
These evidence reviews support the [2015] and [2015, amended 2025] recommendations.
Preventing excess weight gain (NG7, March 2015)
Evidence reviews
- Evidence review 1: An evidence review of modifiable diet and physical activity components, and associated behaviours. Main Report
- Evidence Review 1: An evidence review of modifiable diet and physical activity components, and associated behaviours. Appendix A to D
- Evidence review 1: An evidence review of modifiable diet and physical activity components, and associated behaviours. Appendix E
- Evidence review 1: An evidence review of modifiable diet and physical activity components, and associated behaviours. Appendix F
- Evidence review 2: Qualitative evidence review of the most acceptable ways to communicate information about individually modifiable behaviours to help maintain a healthy weight or prevent excess weight gain. Main Report
- Evidence review 2: Qualitative evidence review of the most acceptable ways to communicate information about individually modifiable behaviours to help maintain a healthy weight or prevent excess weight gain. Appendix
Evaluation report
Evidence reviews 2014
These evidence reviews support the [2014] and [2014, amended 2025] recommendations.
Weight management: lifestyle services for overweight or obese adults (PH53, May 2014)
Evidence reviews
- Evidence review 1a: The clinical effectiveness of long-term weight management schemes for adults
- Evidence review 1b: How components of behavioural weight management programmes affect weight change
- Evidence review 1c: Weight regain after behavioural weight management programmes
- Evidence review 2: Managing overweight and obese adults
Evidence statements
Expert reports
- Expert paper 1 - Jane Ogden
- Expert paper 2 - Rachel Holt
- Expert paper 3 - Rebecca Puhl
- Expert paper 4 - Stephen Watkins
Obesity: identification, assessment and management (CG189, November 2014)
Full guidance
- Full guideline - November 2014
- Appendix A: Scope
- Appendix B: Declarations of interest
- Appendix C: Review protocols
- Appendices D to E: Clinical and economic article selection
- Appendix F: Literature search strategies
- Appendix G: Clinical evidence tables
- Appendix H: Economic evidence tables
- Appendix I: Forest plots
- Appendix J: Excluded clinical studies
- Appendix K: Excluded economic studies
- Appendix L: Research recommendations
- Appendix M: Evidence for NICE guideline CG43
- Appendix N: Scope for NICE guideline CG43
- Appendix O: GRADE tables
- Appendix P: NICE guideline CG43
- Appendix Q: Recommendations from NICE guideline CG43 (deleted or changed)
Other supporting evidence
- Expert report 1: ADDITION-Leicester Study (PH46)
- Expert report 2: Analyses from the SABRE cohort study (PH46)
- External evidence review and appendices (PH46)
Evidence reviews 2013
These evidence reviews support the [2013] and [2013, amended 2025] recommendations.
Weight management: lifestyle services for overweight or obese children and young people (PH47, October 2013)
Evidence reviews
- Evidence review 1: Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of lifestyle weight management services for children and young people
- Evidence review 1 appendices: Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of lifestyle weight management services for children and young people
- Evidence review 2: Barriers and facilitators to implementing lifestyle weight management programmes for children and young people
- Evidence review 2 appendices: Barriers and facilitators to implementing lifestyle weight management programmes for children and young people
Expert papers
- Expert paper 1: Findings of the former Childhood Obesity National Support Team
- Expert paper 2: Implications of the transition of public health responsibilities to local government
- Expert paper 3: Psychological considerations for lifestyle weight management programmes for children and young people, and the use of behaviour change theories
- Expert paper 4: Choosing outcome measures for lifestyle weight management programmes for children
- Expert paper 5: A population-level evaluation of a family-based community intervention for childhood overweight and obesity
- Expert paper 6: Effective Behavioural Components for Childhood weight management programmes
Evidence reviews 2012
These evidence reviews support the [2012] and [2012, amended 2025] recommendations.
Obesity: working with local communities (PH42, November 2012)
Evidence reviews
- Review 1: Identifying the key elements and interactions of a whole system approach to obesity prevention
- Review 2 - The effectiveness of whole system approaches to prevent obesity
- Review 3 - Barriers and facilitators to effective whole system approaches
- Review 4 - Review of cost effectiveness evidence
Expert papers
- Expert paper 1: Plamping and Pratt
- Expert paper 2: Bauld
- Expert paper 3: Chapman
- Expert paper 4: Allender
- Expert paper 5: Hastie
- Expert paper 6: Lingwood
- Expert paper 7: White
- Expert paper 8: Pearce and Renton
- Expert paper 9: Trenchard-Mabere
- Expert paper 10: Sawal
- Expert paper 11: Schuller
- Expert paper 12: Weir
- Expert paper 13: Taylor
- Expert paper 14: Pearce
- Expert paper 15: Dix
- Expert paper 16: Coggins
- Expert paper 17: Messenger
- Expert paper 18: Exworthy
- Expert paper 19: Swinburn
Evidence reviews 2006
These evidence reviews support the [2006], [2006, amended 2014], [2006, amended 2022] and [2006, amended 2024] recommendations.
Obesity prevention (CG43, December 2006)
Full guidance
- Full guideline, section 1 - introduction, methods and recommendations
- Full guideline, section 2 - identification and classification: evidence statements and reviews
- Full guideline, section 3 - prevention: evidence statements and reviews
- Full guideline, section 4 - management of in non clinical settings: evidence statements and reviews
- Full guideline, section 5a - management of in clinical settings (children): evidence statements and reviews
- Full guideline, section 5b - management of in clinical settings (adults): evidence statements and reviews
- Full guideline, section 6 - health economics: evidence statements and reviews
- Full guideline, appendices 1 to 3
- Full guideline, appendices 4 to 5
- Full guideline, appendices 6 to 8
- Full guideline, appendix 9
- Full guideline, appendices 10 to 11
- Full guideline, appendix 12
- Full guideline, appendices 13 to 14
- Full guideline, appendix 13 abbreviations
- Full guideline, appendix 15
- Full guideline, appendices 16 to 18
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