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Adherence to hunger training using blood glucose monitoring: a feasibility study

Overview of attention for article published in Nutrition & Metabolism, June 2015
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Title
Adherence to hunger training using blood glucose monitoring: a feasibility study
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Nutrition & Metabolism, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12986-015-0017-2
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M. R. Jospe, R. C. Brown, M. Roy, R. W. Taylor

Abstract

"Hunger training", which aims to teach people to eat only when blood glucose is below a set target, appears promising as a weight loss strategy. As the ability of participants to adhere to the rigorous protocol has been insufficiently described, we sought to determine the feasibility of hunger training, in terms of retention in the study, adherence to measuring blood glucose, and eating only when blood glucose concentrations are below a set level of 4.7 mmol/L. We undertook a two-week feasibility study, utilising an adaptive design approach where the specific blood glucose cut-off was the adaptive feature. A blood glucose cut-off of 4.7 mmol/L (protocol A) was used for the first 20 participants. A priori we decided that if interim analysis revealed that this cut-off did not meet our feasibility criteria, the remaining ten participants would use an individualised cut-off based on their fasting glucose concentrations (protocol B). Retention of the participants in the study was 97 % (28/29 participants), achieving our criterion of 85 %. Participants measured their blood glucose before 94 % (95 % CI 91, 98) of eating occasions (criterion 80 %). However, participants following protocol A, which used a standard blood glucose cut-off of 4.7 mmol/L, were only able to adhere to eating when blood glucose was below the prescribed level 66 % of the time, below our within-person criterion of 75 %. By contrast, those participants following protocol B (individualised cut-off) adhered to the eating protocol 84 % of the time, a significant (p = 0.010) improvement over protocol A. Hunger training appears to be a feasible method, at least in the short-term, when an individualised fasting blood glucose is used to indicate that a meal can begin.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 21%
Student > Bachelor 7 16%
Researcher 5 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 9%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 9 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 12%
Social Sciences 4 9%
Chemistry 2 5%
Other 8 19%
Unknown 10 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 December 2022.
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#1
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