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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2017 Jan;11(1):184-185.
doi: 10.1177/1932296816656209. Epub 2016 Jul 9.

Adherence to Diet Applications Using a Smartphone Was Associated With Weight Loss in Healthy Overweight Adults Irrespective of the Application

Claudia Thompson-Felty  1 , Carol S Johnston  1
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Adherence to Diet Applications Using a Smartphone Was Associated With Weight Loss in Healthy Overweight Adults Irrespective of the Application

Claudia Thompson-Felty et al. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2017 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: food photography; smartphone app; weight loss.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
Eight-week change in body weight by (A) diet app group, mean ± SD, or (B) individual participant as a function of daily diet tracking adherence. Intention-to-treat analysis followed; N = 26 (n = 8, 8, and 10 for the PIC, PIC-RD, and PLATE app groups, respectively). Mean data analyzed using 1-way analysis of variance, and the partial correlation analysis controlled for diet app group.
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