Weight loss by mobile phone: a 1-year effectiveness study
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Weight loss by mobile phone: a 1-year effectiveness study.
OBJECTIVE To investigate the short- and long-term effectiveness and the predictors of weight loss in a mobile phone weight-loss programme among healthy overweight adults. DESIGN One hundred and twenty-five healthy, overweight (BMI = 26-36 kg/m2), 25-44-year-old, screened volunteers were randomized to an experimental group (n 62) to use a mobile phone-operated weight-loss programme or to a con...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Nutrition
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1368-9800,1475-2727
DOI: 10.1017/s1368980009005230