Improvement of Physical and Physiological Parameters Through the Use of a Mobile App

University of Alicante

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Cholesterol; Lipidosis; Machine Learning; Obesity; Body Weight; Diet, Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: CONTROL GROUP; Behavioral: HEALTH APP GROUP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05093803

UA-2021-03-27

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate the health effects of a new mobile application (app) for prevention and personalized treatment in people with chronic cardiovascular pathologies associated with body composition.

Full description

Scientific evidence has shown that the adoption of the Mediterranean diet is a protective factor against the appearance of several types of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, aging and obesity due to the amount of nutrients with anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory and anti-obesity properties that jointly contribute to the maintenance of health status. The antitumor effects of the Mediterranean diet are mainly due to the combination of antioxidant elements, fiber and polyunsaturated fats. Therefore, this dietary pattern is essential as a preventive measure against the onset of cancer and other chronic diseases, but also to reduce health care costs.

Monitoring physical activity should be considered as a central factor when addressing precision nutrition. Perform physical activity and exercise, as they are key components of energy expenditure and balance, in addition, structural changes occur in muscles, increase in the number of mitochondria in fiber, secretion of metabolically beneficial hormones with reversal of muscle insulin resistance and reduction of hepatic lipogenesis. Regardless of intensity, short-term exercise has been shown to improve adiposity and insulin sensitivity, which may help reduce metabolic risk. Boutcher et al. also demonstrated that intermittent aerobic and anaerobic exercise performed at an intensity >70% of maximal oxygen uptake significantly reduces ambulatory and office blood pressure in hypertensive individuals.

The development of this app aims, through self-management and visualizing the altered parameters and how they will evolve in your body in the short, medium and long term, to increase the population's commitment to these pathologies, in order to improve their health.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men and women over 21 years of age

Exclusion criteria

• Volunteers who do not have access to a smartphone.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

CONTROL GROUP

Active Comparator group

Description:

Recommendations on healthy eating habits based on the Mediterranean diet and moderate physical activity.

Treatment:

Behavioral: CONTROL GROUP

APP GROUP

Experimental group

Description:

Recommendations on healthy eating habits based on the Mediterranean diet and moderate physical activity through the use of an app based on machine learning, so they have constant stimuli for the improvement of the parameters.

Treatment:

Behavioral: HEALTH APP GROUP