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The same multi-channel IT-enabled dietary intervention leads to significant improvements in secondary health biomarkers, including reduced BMI, diastolic blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, and triglycerides.
Improving diet quality through structured, tech-supported interventions can yield measurable metabolic benefits, including lower blood pressure, blood sugar, and triglycerides, even without explicit exercise prescriptions.
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Similarly, significant net changes occurred for secondary outcomes: BMI -0.25 kg/m2, diastolic blood pressure -2.77 mm Hg, FPG -5.7 mg/dl, and triglycerides -24.2mg/dl.
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Cluster RCT with objective biochemical measurements.
Source
Effectiveness of information technology–enabled ‘SMART Eating’ health promotion intervention: A cluster randomized controlled trial
Jasvir Kaur et al. · PLoS ONE · 2020
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0225892
rct · n=732Cited 37×
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