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ArticleExpert review of medical devices2010

Integrated electronic platforms for weight loss.

Shelly K McCrady-Spitzer, James A Levine

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Article in Expert review of medical devices, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Interventions employing mobile technology for overweight and obesity: an early systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Shelly K McCrady-SpitzerEndocrine Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
James A Levine

Funding

MAYO CLINIC CENTER FOR TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE ACTIVITIESUL1RR024150 · NCRR · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI RIZZA, ROBERT A. · 2006 to 2011
$66.4M
Obesity and Energy Metabolism CoreP30DK050456 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI LEVINE, ALLEN S · 1995 to 2015
$17.0M
Mayo Clinic Center for Translational Science ActivitiesKL2RR024151 · NCRR · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI RIZZA, ROBERT A. · 2006 to 2011
$15.3M
Nutritional Restriction and Activity ThermogenesisR01DK063226 · NIDDK · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI LEVINE, JAMES A · 2003 to 2007
$2.8M
Instruments for measuring physical activityR01DK066270 · NIDDK · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI LEVINE, JAMES A · 2004 to 2008
$1.3M
NCRR NIH HHS 1 UL1 RR024150NCRR NIH HHS KL2 RR024151NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR024150NIDDK NIH HHS DK50456NIDDK NIH HHS DK63226NIDDK NIH HHS DK66270NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK050456NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK063226NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK066270
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

What can be done to build effective weight loss solutions for the 1.5 billion people with obesity? It is self-evident that no one good solution exists for people who are overweight or obese, otherwise it would have been applied across the people who need it worldwide. There is, therefore, an urgent need for approaches that will afford weight loss; what is more, such approaches need to be scalable. For that reason, it is attractive to consider electronic platforms as an avenue for scalable weight loss solutions. Such platforms often do not require substantial investments but rather the integration of pre-existing off-the-shelf components. In this article we explore the concepts and design challenges for electronic platforms that precipitate weight loss.

Indexed as

Weight LossElectronics, MedicalEquipment DesignEquipment Failure AnalysisHumansMonitoring, AmbulatoryObesitySystems IntegrationTherapy, Computer-Assisted

Identifiers

PMID20214426
PMCPMC2897161

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