Goldstein, Carly M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6150-5649
Goldstein, Stephanie P.
Thomas, Diana M.
Hoover, Adam
Bond, Dale S.
Thomas, J. Graham
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K23 HL136845, F32 HL143954)
Article History
Received: 31 July 2020
Revised: 9 October 2020
Accepted: 20 November 2020
First Online: 27 November 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by The Miriam Hospital’s Institutional Review Board.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. This study was registered on ExternalRef removed as NCT02857595.
: Drs. C. Goldstein, S. Goldstein, and Bond declare that they have no conflicts of interest. Dr. D. M. Thomas is the non-compensated co-inventor of a weight loss smartphone app (outside of the submitted work). Dr. Hoover reports non-financial support from Bite Technologies, LLC, outside the submitted work. In addition, Dr. Hoover has a patent A. Hoover, E. Muth and Y. Dong, “Weight Control Device Using Bites Detection”, US Patent no 8310368, filed January 2009, granted November 2012. issued, and a patent A. Hoover, E. Muth, Y. Dong and J. Scisco, “Device and Method for Detecting Eating Activities”, USA, Patent No. 9685097, filed July 2012, granted June 20, 2017, issued. Dr. A. Hoover provided the Bite Counters used in this study to Dr. C. Goldstein and Dr. J. G. Thomas. Dr. A. Hoover was not involved in analyzing the results. Dr. J. G. Thomas reports personal fees from Profile by Sanford and Slimming World (outside of the submitted work).