Medical Xpress August 8, 2024
University of Tsukuba

Obesity, a significant risk factor for non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, poses a considerable global public health challenge. Among the various strategies to combat obesity, weight-loss interventions that offer lifestyle modification guidance through web-based services have attracted attention.

Among these, and exercise interventions facilitated by smartphone health care apps have emerged as an effective method for . As the actual impact on weight loss varies among individuals, this study explores the characteristics of successful users of weight-loss apps.

A new study published in Nutrients, which is a secondary analysis of data from a previous randomized controlled trial performed by the same research group, evaluated the effectiveness of health care apps.

This analysis focused...

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