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Effectiveness of a Weight Loss Program Using Digital Health in Adolescents and Preadolescents

Childhood Obesity, 2021
Objective: To identify an efficacious intervention on treating adolescents with overweight and obesity, this might result in health benefits. Methods: Adolescents with overweight or obesity aged 10-17 years with BMI percentile ≥85th were included in this historical observational analysis.
Lei, Sha, Inojosa, Jose R. Medina, Kumar, Seema, Lee, Alexander T., Scott, Christopher G., Lerman, Amir, Lerman, Lilach O., Senecal, Conor G., Lin, Weihua, Zhang, Xiaoyong, Cohen, Pinchas, Lopez-Jimenez, Francisco   +11 more
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Targeting RAGE prevents muscle wasting and prolongs survival in cancer cachexia [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Cachexia, a multifactorial syndrome affecting more than 50% of patients with advanced cancer and responsible for ~20% of cancer-associated deaths, is still a poorly understood process without a standard cure available. Skeletal muscle atrophy
Chiappalupi, S., Coletti, D., Donato, R., Renga, G., Riuzzi, F., Romani, L., Sagheddu, R., Salvadori, L., Sorci, G., Vukasinovic, A.   +9 more
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DIGITAL HEALTH INTERVENTION DURING CARDIAC REHABILITATION ENHANCES WEIGHT LOSS

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2016
Digital health interventions (DHI) - including internet portals and email communications - have been shown to improve some intermediates of cardiovascular health; however their efficacy for weight loss in secondary prevention in clinical trials is less clear.
Robert Jay Widmer, Thomas Allison, Francisco Lopez-Jimemez, Ryan Lennon, Lilach Lerman, Amir Lerman   +5 more
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The effectiveness of digital delivery versus group-based face-to-face delivery of the English National Health Service Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Programme: a non-inferiority retrospective cohort comparison study

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Face-to-face group-based diabetes prevention programmes have been shown to be effective in many settings. Digital delivery may suit some patients, but research comparing the effectiveness of digital with face-to-face delivery is scarce.
Antonia M. Marsden, Mark Hann, Emma Barron, Ben McGough, Elizabeth Murray, Jonathan Valabhji, Sarah Cotterill   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Digital absolution

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2016
Based on online observation of communication in a web-based weight loss forum, this article identifies the relevance of confession and absolution as characteristics of online interactions. Our close study of forum messages, arranged as web diaries open to comments from participants, shows that self-blaming posts elicited absolutional replies.
Grønning, Ingeborg Mikalsen, Tjora, Aksel   +1 more
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Patient Adherence to a Real-World Digital, Asynchronous Weight Loss Program in Australia That Combines Behavioural and GLP-1 RA Therapy: A Mixed Methods Study

Behavioral Sciences
Increasingly large numbers of people are using digital weight loss services (DWLSs) to treat being overweight and obesity. Although it is widely agreed that digital modalities improve access to care in general, obesity stakeholders remain concerned that ...
Louis Talay, Matt Vickers
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Dietary Protein Intake and Peritoneal Protein Losses in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients lose protein in their waste dialysate, potentially increasing their risk for malnutrition. We wished to determine whether there was any association between losses and dietary protein intake (DPI). Methods DPI was assessed from 24‐h dietary recall using Nutrics software.
Haalah Shaaker, Andrew Davenport
wiley   +1 more source

Longitudinal Effects of a Digital Weight Management Program on Weight Loss: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Obesity Science & Practice
Objective Digital weight management (WM) programs have emerged as a novel solution for facilitating successful weight loss. However, there is a lack of long‐term, rigorous evaluations of digital WM programs, and there is high variability in weight loss ...
Meaghan McCallum, Robert G. Moulder, Sydney Earl, Kelly Blessing, Paige Thompson, M. Cole Ainsworth, Matt Baldwin, Christine N. May   +7 more
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A quasi-experimental study on adult weight loss using a multidimensional approach among a rural population

SAGE Open Medicine, 2023
Objectives: The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a yearlong digital multidimensional weight-loss intervention among residents in a southern rural community.
Chelsea Burrell
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of age and race on outcomes of a program to prevent excess weight gain and disordered eating in adolescent girls [PDF]

, 2017
Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) prevents weight gain and reduces loss-of-control (LOC)-eating in adults. However, IPT was not superior to health-education (HE) for preventing excess weight gain and reducing LOC-eating over 1-year in adolescent girls at
Brady, Sheila, Burke, Natasha L, Olsen, Cara H, Reynolds, James C, Sbrocco, Tracy, Shomaker, Lauren B, Stephens, Mark, Tanofsky-Kraff, Marian, Wilfley, Denise E, Yanovski, Jack A, Young, Jami F   +10 more
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