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SILVER SPRING, Md. A systematic review of multiple randomized controlled studies among adults with overweight or obesity showed that greater engagement in self-monitoring using digital health tools was associated with significant weight loss, according to a paper published online in
Obesity, The Obesity Society s flagship journal. This is the first comprehensive systematic review to examine the relationship between digital self-monitoring and weight loss. Digital health tools have flourished in the past decade, said Michele L. Patel, PhD, post-doctoral research fellow, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif. What this paper sought out to explore was whether tracking via these digital tools is effective at producing greater weight loss. Patel is the corresponding author of the study.
Link Between Digital Self-monitoring and Weight Loss Identified by Colleen Fleiss on February 25, 2021 at 2:13 AM
Increased engagement in self-monitoring using digital health tools may help with weight loss, says a new study.
The study, published in the journal Obesity, indicated that digital self-monitoring was linked to weight loss in 74 per cent of occurrences. This may be because many digital tools are highly portable, and therefore allow the user to track any time of the day; digital tools also may make tracking quicker, and may be less burdensome to use, said researcher Michele L. Patel from Stanford University in the US.