ReviewJournal of nutrition and metabolism2020
Validity of Accelerometers for the Evaluation of Energy Expenditure in Obese and Overweight Individuals: A Systematic Review.
Review in Journal of nutrition and metabolism, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04821713 (ENerGetics in Old AGE), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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ENerGetics in Old AGE (ENGAGE Study) - Validation of Multiple Accelerometers and Physical Activity Questionnaires Against Indirect Calorimetry Under Laboratory and Free-living Conditions in Very Old Adults
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Within-person association between affect and physical activity related to depressive symptomatology: A systematic review and methodological reflections.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Pooled it
- Device-measured physical activity, adiposity and mortality: a harmonised meta-analysis of eight prospective cohort studies.British journal of sports medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Weight Maintenance after Dietary Weight Loss: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Effectiveness of Behavioural Intensive Intervention.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of Blood Flow Restriction on Functional, Physiological and Structural Variables of Muscle in Patients with Chronic Pathologies: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Assessment of 24-hour physical behaviour in children and adolescents via wearables: a systematic review of free-living validation studies.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Accelerometer measurement error in a randomized physical activity intervention trial in breast cancer survivors was nondifferential but attenuated the intervention effect.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Trial
- Effect of a Low-Moderate Exercise Program on Dysmetabolism in Older Adults: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- Determination of cut-off points for the Move4 accelerometer and assessment of energy expenditure in children and adolescents aged 6-16 years using manual wheelchairs: a validation and calibration study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Objective versus subjective physical activity assessment in a clinical setting of patients with obesity and eating disorders : A concurrent validity study.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2026Article
- Validating the Longitudinal Assessment of Sedentary Behavior in a Randomized Controlled Trial via a Deep Learning Algorithm.Journal for the measurement of physical behaviour · 2026Article
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- Movement efficiency in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the St. Jude lifetime cohort study.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Article
- Developing and comparing a new BMI inclusive energy expenditure algorithm on wrist-worn wearables.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The impact of body composition on the degree of misreporting of food diaries.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Effects of Functional and Nutraceutical Foods in the Context of the Mediterranean Diet in Patients Diagnosed with Breast Cancer.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Perioperative Nutritional Management in Enhanced Recovery after Bariatric Surgery.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Mitochondrial Aging and Senolytic Natural Products with Protective Potential.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Dynamics of Gut Microbiota and Clinical Variables after Ketogenic and Mediterranean Diets in Drug-Naïve Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity.Metabolites · 2022Article
- Step Detection Accuracy and Energy Expenditure Estimation at Different Speeds by Three Accelerometers in a Controlled Environment in Overweight/Obese Subjects.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Mediterranean diet, lifestyle and quality of life in Sardinian patients affected with Hidradenitis suppurativa.Journal of public health research · 2021Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveEven though the validity of accelerometers for the measurement of energy expenditure (EE) has been demonstrated for normal-weight individuals, the applicability of this instrument in obese individuals remains controversial. This review aims to summarize the level of agreement between accelerometers and the gold standards (indirect calorimetry and doubly labelled water) for the measurement of energy expenditure (EE) in obese or overweight individuals.
methodsThe literature search was limited to comparison studies assessing agreement in EE determination between accelerometers and indirect calorimetry (IC) or doubly labelled water (DLW). We searched in PubMed and in Scopus until March 1, 2019. The analysis was restricted to obese or overweight adult individuals. The following descriptive information was extracted for each study: sample size, characteristics of participants (sex, age, BMI, fat mass percentage, any pathological conditions, modality of recruitment in the study, and exclusion criteria), accelerometer description (model, type and body position), and type of gold standard and validity protocol (duration, conditions, and requirements during and before the experiment). Three review authors independently screened the obtained results, and the quality of the selected articles was assessed by the QUADAS-2 tool.
resultsWe obtained seventeen eligible articles, thirteen of which showed concerns for the applicability section, due to the patient selection. Regarding the accelerometers, nine devices were validated in the included studies with the BodyMedia SenseWear® (SWA) being the most frequently validated. Although correlations between accelerometers and the gold standard were high in some studies, agreement between the two methods was low, as shown by the Bland-Altman plots.
conclusionsMost accelerometer estimations of EE were inaccurate for obese/overweight subjects, and authors advise to improve the accuracy of algorithms for SWA software, or the predicted equations for estimating EE from other accelerometers.
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