Correction to: International Journal of Obesity (2013) 37, 1443–1451; doi:10.1038/ijo.2013.120; published online 1 July 2013

The publisher would like to apologize for an error in Table 2.

For the comorbidity data, the numbers and percentages were presented the wrong way round. The corrected table is shown below.

Table 2 Demographics and disease-specific characteristics for all randomized individuals