BodyMedia Armband Systems Enable More Weight Loss Per Dollar than Other Interventions
The use of an armband-based body monitoring system proved to be the most cost-effective of four approaches to weight loss examined by researchers in an analysis that will be presented at the American College of Sports Medicine’s 59th Annual Meeting and 3rd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine this week in San Francisco. The study, “An Economic Analysis of Traditional and Technology-Based Approaches to Weight Loss: LEAN Study Cost-Effectiveness,” calculated the cost of all four approaches in terms of the ratio of weight loss to staff time and materials. The cost for BodyMedia armband users was $51 per participant per kilogram lost – less than half of the $129 associated with group weight loss education.