Ms Louise Mccombie

  • Affiliate (School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing)

email: Louise.Mccombie@glasgow.ac.uk

School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, Royal Infirmary Site

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2025

Sharma, V. et al. (2025) A 1-year weight management program for difficult-to-treat asthma with obesity: a randomized controlled study. Chest, 167(1), pp. 42-53. (doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.09.042) (PMID:39427706) (PMCID:PMC11752128)

2024

Pugh, J. E. et al. (2024) Increase in colonic PRopionate as a method of prEVENTing weight gain over 12 months in adults aged 20–40 years (iPREVENT): a multi-centre, double-blind, randomised, parallel-group trial. EClinicalMedicine, 76, 102844. (doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102844) (PMID:39391015) (PMCID:PMC11466568)

Lean, M. E.J. et al. (2024) 5-year follow-up of the randomised Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT) of continued support for weight loss maintenance in the UK: an extension study. Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, 12(4), pp. 233-246. (doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(23)00385-6) (PMID:38423026)

2023

Sharma, Varun, Ricketts, Helen Clare, McCombie, Louise, Brosnahan, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-1060, Crawford, Luisa, Slaughter, Lesley, Goodfellow, Anna, Lean, Michael E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 and Cowan, Douglas C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7297-9041 (2023) A total diet replacement weight management programme for difficult-to-treat asthma associated with obesity: a randomised controlled feasibility trial. Chest, 163(5), pp. 1026-1037. (doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.01.015) (PMID:36649753)

Cassidy, S. et al. (2023) Physical activity, inactivity and sleep during the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT). Diabetic Medicine, 40(3), e15010. (doi: 10.1111/dme.15010) (PMID:36398460)

Sattar, Naveed ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593, Welsh, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-3643, Leslie, Wilma S., Thom, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8871-9524, McCombie, Louise, Brosnahan, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-1060, Richardson, Janice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8207-0891, Gill, Jason M. R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3615-0986, Crawford, Luisa and Lean, Michael E. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2023) Dietary weight-management for type 2 diabetes remissions in South Asians: the South Asian diabetes remission randomised trial for proof-of-concept and feasibility (STANDby). Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, 9, 100111. (doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2022.100111) (PMID:36777452) (PMCID:PMC9904218)

2022

Pugh, J. E. et al. (2022) Increase in colonic PRopionate as a method of prEVENTing weight gain in adults aged 20–40 years (iPREVENT): a multi-centre, double-blind, randomised, parallel-group study to investigate the efficacy of inulin-propionate ester versus inulin (control) in the prevention of weight gain over 12 months. F1000Research, (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.125950.1)

Lean, Mike ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083, McCombie, Louise and Xin, Yiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5856-3103 (2022) Forget polypharmacy for type 2 diabetes! Weight management is a better investment. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 37(5), pp. 844-846. (doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfaa250) (PMID:33263751)

Rehackova, Lucia, Taylor, Roy, Lean, Mike ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083, Barnes, Alison, McCombie, Louise, Thom, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8871-9524, Brosnahan, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-1060, Leslie, Wilma S. and Sniehotta, Falko F. (2022) Delivering the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT) in primary care: experiences of healthcare professionals. Diabetic Medicine, 39(3), e14752. (doi: 10.1111/dme.14752) (PMID:34837259)

Rehackova, L. et al. (2022) Participant experiences in the Diabetes REmission Clinical Trial (DiRECT). Diabetic Medicine, 39(1), e14689. (doi: 10.1111/dme.14689) (PMID:34519099)

2021

Leslie, W. S. et al. (2021) Antihypertensive medication needs and blood pressure control with weight loss in the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT). Diabetologia, 64(9), pp. 1927-1938. (doi: 10.1007/s00125-021-05471-x) (PMID:34056684)

Thom, G. et al. (2021) Predictors of type 2 diabetes in the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT). Diabetic Medicine, 38(8), e14395. (doi: 10.1111/dme.14395) (PMID:32870520)

Brosnahan, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-1060, Leslie, Wilma, McCombie, Louise, Barnes, Alison, Thom, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8871-9524, McConnachie, Alex ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7262-7000, Messow, Claudia Martina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0082-9946, Sattar, Naveed ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593, Taylor, Roy and Lean, Michael E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2021) Brief formula low‐energy‐diet for relapse management during weight loss maintenance in the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT). Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 34(3), pp. 472-479. (doi: 10.1111/jhn.12839) (PMID:33406285)

Thom, G. et al. (2021) Weight loss induced increase in fasting ghrelin concentration is a predictor of weight regain: evidence from the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 23(3), pp. 711-719. (doi: 10.1111/dom.14274) (PMID:33369058)

2020

Xin, Yiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5856-3103, Davies, Andrew, Briggs, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0777-1997, McCombie, Louise, Messow, C. Martina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0082-9946, Grieve, Eleanor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4115-2882, Leslie, Wilma S., Taylor, Roy and Lean, Michael E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2020) Type 2 diabetes remission: 2 year within-trial and lifetime-horizon cost-effectiveness of the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT)/Counterweight-Plus weight management programme. Diabetologia, 63, pp. 2112-2122. (doi: 10.1007/s00125-020-05224-2) (PMID:32776237) (PMCID:PMC7476973)

2019

Lean, Mike ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083, McCombie, Louise and McSorely, Joe (2019) Trends in type 2 diabetes. British Medical Journal, 366, l5407. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.l5407) (PMID:31511237)

McCombie, L., Brosnahan, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-1060, Ross, H., Bell-Higgs, A., Govan, L. and Lean, M.E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2019) Filling the intervention gap: service evaluation of an intensive nonsurgical weight management programme for severe and complex obesity. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 32(3), pp. 329-337. (doi: 10.1111/jhn.12611) (PMID:30565772)

Xin, Yiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5856-3103, Davies, Andrew, McCombie, Louise, Briggs, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0777-1997, Messow, C.-Martina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0082-9946, Grieve, Eleanor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4115-2882, Leslie, Wilma S., Taylor, Roy and Lean, Michael E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2019) Within-trial cost and 1-year cost-effectiveness of the DiRECT/Counterweight-Plus weight-management programme to achieve remission of type 2 diabetes. Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, 7(3), pp. 169-172. (doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(18)30346-2) (PMID:30581081)

Angelopoulou, Kleopatra, Leslie, Wilma, , ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 and (2019) Diabetes and travel insurance costs: let's talk about remission. Practical Diabetes, 36(1), pp. 20-21. (doi: 10.1002/pdi.2205)

2018

McCombie, Louise and Grieve, Eleanor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4115-2882 (2018) Economic cost of obesity and the cost‐effectiveness of weight management. In: Hankey, Catherine and Whelan, Kevin (eds.) Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Obesity. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 252-259. ISBN 9780470670767 (doi: 10.1002/9781118857991.ch4)

2017

McCombie, Louise, Leslie, Wilma, Taylor, Roy, Kennon, Brian, Sattar, Naveed ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593 and Lean, Mike E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2017) Beating type 2 diabetes into remission. British Medical Journal, 358, j4030. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.j4030) (PMID:28903916)

2015

McCombie, Louise, Lean, Michael E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 and Tigbe, William W. (2015) Cost-effectiveness of obesity treatment. Medicine, 43(2), pp. 104-107. (doi: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2014.11.007)

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Articles

Sharma, V. et al. (2025) A 1-year weight management program for difficult-to-treat asthma with obesity: a randomized controlled study. Chest, 167(1), pp. 42-53. (doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.09.042) (PMID:39427706) (PMCID:PMC11752128)

Pugh, J. E. et al. (2024) Increase in colonic PRopionate as a method of prEVENTing weight gain over 12 months in adults aged 20–40 years (iPREVENT): a multi-centre, double-blind, randomised, parallel-group trial. EClinicalMedicine, 76, 102844. (doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102844) (PMID:39391015) (PMCID:PMC11466568)

Lean, M. E.J. et al. (2024) 5-year follow-up of the randomised Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT) of continued support for weight loss maintenance in the UK: an extension study. Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, 12(4), pp. 233-246. (doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(23)00385-6) (PMID:38423026)

Sharma, Varun, Ricketts, Helen Clare, McCombie, Louise, Brosnahan, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-1060, Crawford, Luisa, Slaughter, Lesley, Goodfellow, Anna, Lean, Michael E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 and Cowan, Douglas C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7297-9041 (2023) A total diet replacement weight management programme for difficult-to-treat asthma associated with obesity: a randomised controlled feasibility trial. Chest, 163(5), pp. 1026-1037. (doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.01.015) (PMID:36649753)

Cassidy, S. et al. (2023) Physical activity, inactivity and sleep during the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT). Diabetic Medicine, 40(3), e15010. (doi: 10.1111/dme.15010) (PMID:36398460)

Sattar, Naveed ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593, Welsh, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-3643, Leslie, Wilma S., Thom, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8871-9524, McCombie, Louise, Brosnahan, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-1060, Richardson, Janice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8207-0891, Gill, Jason M. R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3615-0986, Crawford, Luisa and Lean, Michael E. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2023) Dietary weight-management for type 2 diabetes remissions in South Asians: the South Asian diabetes remission randomised trial for proof-of-concept and feasibility (STANDby). Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, 9, 100111. (doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2022.100111) (PMID:36777452) (PMCID:PMC9904218)

Pugh, J. E. et al. (2022) Increase in colonic PRopionate as a method of prEVENTing weight gain in adults aged 20–40 years (iPREVENT): a multi-centre, double-blind, randomised, parallel-group study to investigate the efficacy of inulin-propionate ester versus inulin (control) in the prevention of weight gain over 12 months. F1000Research, (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.125950.1)

Lean, Mike ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083, McCombie, Louise and Xin, Yiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5856-3103 (2022) Forget polypharmacy for type 2 diabetes! Weight management is a better investment. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 37(5), pp. 844-846. (doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfaa250) (PMID:33263751)

Rehackova, Lucia, Taylor, Roy, Lean, Mike ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083, Barnes, Alison, McCombie, Louise, Thom, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8871-9524, Brosnahan, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-1060, Leslie, Wilma S. and Sniehotta, Falko F. (2022) Delivering the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT) in primary care: experiences of healthcare professionals. Diabetic Medicine, 39(3), e14752. (doi: 10.1111/dme.14752) (PMID:34837259)

Rehackova, L. et al. (2022) Participant experiences in the Diabetes REmission Clinical Trial (DiRECT). Diabetic Medicine, 39(1), e14689. (doi: 10.1111/dme.14689) (PMID:34519099)

Leslie, W. S. et al. (2021) Antihypertensive medication needs and blood pressure control with weight loss in the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT). Diabetologia, 64(9), pp. 1927-1938. (doi: 10.1007/s00125-021-05471-x) (PMID:34056684)

Thom, G. et al. (2021) Predictors of type 2 diabetes in the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT). Diabetic Medicine, 38(8), e14395. (doi: 10.1111/dme.14395) (PMID:32870520)

Brosnahan, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-1060, Leslie, Wilma, McCombie, Louise, Barnes, Alison, Thom, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8871-9524, McConnachie, Alex ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7262-7000, Messow, Claudia Martina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0082-9946, Sattar, Naveed ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593, Taylor, Roy and Lean, Michael E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2021) Brief formula low‐energy‐diet for relapse management during weight loss maintenance in the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT). Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 34(3), pp. 472-479. (doi: 10.1111/jhn.12839) (PMID:33406285)

Thom, G. et al. (2021) Weight loss induced increase in fasting ghrelin concentration is a predictor of weight regain: evidence from the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 23(3), pp. 711-719. (doi: 10.1111/dom.14274) (PMID:33369058)

Xin, Yiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5856-3103, Davies, Andrew, Briggs, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0777-1997, McCombie, Louise, Messow, C. Martina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0082-9946, Grieve, Eleanor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4115-2882, Leslie, Wilma S., Taylor, Roy and Lean, Michael E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2020) Type 2 diabetes remission: 2 year within-trial and lifetime-horizon cost-effectiveness of the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT)/Counterweight-Plus weight management programme. Diabetologia, 63, pp. 2112-2122. (doi: 10.1007/s00125-020-05224-2) (PMID:32776237) (PMCID:PMC7476973)

Lean, Mike ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083, McCombie, Louise and McSorely, Joe (2019) Trends in type 2 diabetes. British Medical Journal, 366, l5407. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.l5407) (PMID:31511237)

McCombie, L., Brosnahan, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-1060, Ross, H., Bell-Higgs, A., Govan, L. and Lean, M.E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2019) Filling the intervention gap: service evaluation of an intensive nonsurgical weight management programme for severe and complex obesity. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 32(3), pp. 329-337. (doi: 10.1111/jhn.12611) (PMID:30565772)

Xin, Yiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5856-3103, Davies, Andrew, McCombie, Louise, Briggs, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0777-1997, Messow, C.-Martina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0082-9946, Grieve, Eleanor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4115-2882, Leslie, Wilma S., Taylor, Roy and Lean, Michael E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2019) Within-trial cost and 1-year cost-effectiveness of the DiRECT/Counterweight-Plus weight-management programme to achieve remission of type 2 diabetes. Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, 7(3), pp. 169-172. (doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(18)30346-2) (PMID:30581081)

Angelopoulou, Kleopatra, Leslie, Wilma, , ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 and (2019) Diabetes and travel insurance costs: let's talk about remission. Practical Diabetes, 36(1), pp. 20-21. (doi: 10.1002/pdi.2205)

McCombie, Louise, Leslie, Wilma, Taylor, Roy, Kennon, Brian, Sattar, Naveed ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593 and Lean, Mike E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 (2017) Beating type 2 diabetes into remission. British Medical Journal, 358, j4030. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.j4030) (PMID:28903916)

McCombie, Louise, Lean, Michael E.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 and Tigbe, William W. (2015) Cost-effectiveness of obesity treatment. Medicine, 43(2), pp. 104-107. (doi: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2014.11.007)

Book Sections

McCombie, Louise and Grieve, Eleanor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4115-2882 (2018) Economic cost of obesity and the cost‐effectiveness of weight management. In: Hankey, Catherine and Whelan, Kevin (eds.) Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Obesity. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 252-259. ISBN 9780470670767 (doi: 10.1002/9781118857991.ch4)

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