Adherent Use of Digital Health Trackers Is Associated with Weight Loss

Arya Pourzanjani, Tom Quisel and Luca Foschini

PLOS ONE, 2016, vol. 11, issue 4, 1-14

Abstract: We study the association between weight fluctuation and activity tracking in an on-line population of thousands of individuals using digital health trackers (1,749 ≤ N ≤ 14,411, depending on the activity tracker considered) with millions of recorded activities (119,292 ≤ N ≤ 2,221,382) over the years 2013–2015. In a first between-subject analysis, we found a positive association between activity tracking frequency and weight loss. Users who log food with moderate frequency lost an additional 0.63% (CI [0.55, 0.72]; p

Date: 2016
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