TY - JOUR
AR - JICOA-2020-4-117
TI - Efficacy of Remote Monitoring of Overweight Patients with Connected Health Platform
AU - César Morcillo , Serra
AU - Domingo , Marzal Martín
AU - José Francisco , Tomás Martínez
JO - Journal of Integrative Cardiology Open Access
PY - 2020
DA - Fri 28, Aug 2020
SN - 2674-2489
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.31487/j.JICOA.2020.04.17
UR - https://www.sciencerepository.org/efficacy-of-remote-monitoring-of-overweight-patients-with-connected-health-platform_JICOA-2020-4-117 
KW - Digital health, telemedicine, telemonitoring, overweight, quality of life, real world data
AB - Background: Mobile technology has emerged as a potentially useful platform to facilitate weight
management and tackle the current obesity epidemic.
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of a remote monitoring platform for overweight patients.
Methods: Multicenter prospective observational study of overweight patients seen in an endocrinology
clinic of 5 healthcare centers, between August 2017 and August 2020, who were followed with the
Connected Health telemonitoring platform. The mobile phone application connected to a scale and activity
wristband, allowed to measure weight, activity, answer health questionnaire and its management by the
medical team that could be contacted by video consultation.
Results: 79 patients (57% female) with a mean age of 46,8 (SD 23-70) years were included with a mean
follow-up of 12.9 months (SD 4-36). The application allowed to measure weight, activity and quality of life
and no patient presented complications. The mean weight of all patients at the beginning of the intervention
was 84.1 kg and at the end of the follow-up it was 82.4 kg, with a mean reduction of 1.7 kg (p<0.05). The
average state of health of all patients at baseline was 62 (SD 34-100) and at the end of the follow-up was 66
(SD 38-100) (p<0.05).
Conclusion: Telemonitoring allows a safe remote monitoring of overweight patients. The Connected
Health application allowed the measurement of weight, activity and quality of life, and was associated
with significant changes in body weight.