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. 2010 Mar;7(2):201-7.
doi: 10.1586/erd.09.73.

Integrated electronic platforms for weight loss

Shelly K McCrady-Spitzer  1 , James A Levine
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Integrated electronic platforms for weight loss

Shelly K McCrady-Spitzer et al. Expert Rev Med Devices. 2010 Mar.

Abstract

What can be done to build effective weight loss solutions for the 1.5 billion people with obesity? It is self-evident that no one good solution exists for people who are overweight or obese, otherwise it would have been applied across the people who need it worldwide. There is, therefore, an urgent need for approaches that will afford weight loss; what is more, such approaches need to be scalable. For that reason, it is attractive to consider electronic platforms as an avenue for scalable weight loss solutions. Such platforms often do not require substantial investments but rather the integration of pre-existing off-the-shelf components. In this article we explore the concepts and design challenges for electronic platforms that precipitate weight loss.

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Conflict of interest statement

Financial & competing interest disclosure: The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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Figure 1. Design of the technologies to precipitate weight loss
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