Successful weight loss maintainers use health‐tracking smartphone applications more than a nationally representative sample: comparison of the National Weight Control Registry to Pew Tracking for Health

The objective of this paper is to evaluate successful weight loss maintainers' use of self‐monitoring technology.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Obesity Science & Practice

• Publication date

  2017-03-27

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/osp4.102PMID 28702210PMCID 5478812
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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