Relationship between objectively measured lifestyle factors and health factors in patients with knee osteoarthritis: The STROBE Study
Jeong et al.
The finding, in our words
Daily step count from a smartwatch was the only lifestyle factor independently associated with knee osteoarthritis outcomes: it correlated positively with pain, symptom and daily living function scores and hip abductor strength, but negatively with knee pain duration and diastolic blood pressure. Body mass index and waist circumference were unrelated to physical activity but were negatively associated with sleep duration and eating speed, suggesting wearable monitoring could help track key health indicators remotely.
A paraphrase to the Library’s standard, never the abstract. The source is one link away and is always the authority.
A fully remote decentralised clinical trial in Danish adults with type 2 diabetes demonstrated operational feasibility with rapid recruitment, high retention (87 percent), and excellent adherence to continuous glucose monitoring (95 percent achieving ≥70 percent data coverage) and telemedicine visits (97 percent). Activity tracker adherence was poor (12 percent) due to technical issues, but remote safety monitoring was effective with no unexpected adverse events, supporting the viability of remote diabetes management.
In progressive multiple sclerosis, higher serum neurofilament light chain levels were associated with reduced daily step counts from wearables, while higher step counts were linked to lower sNfL. A ten percent increase in steps corresponded to a 0.015 decrease in sNfL z-score, suggesting rising sNfL may predict subsequent mobility decline.
Joseph et al., Annals of clinical and translational neurology (paywalled) · source ↗
Older adults with and without cognitive impairment were motivated to participate in longitudinal remote sleep research, finding it acceptable when device burden was low, usability high, and adequate support enabled routine integration. Varying cognitive task content and allowing timing flexibility reduced fatigue, while diverse recruitment remains needed for equitable representation in decentralised dementia trials.
Biswas et al., Journal of medical Internet research · source ↗
Among 126 Australian university staff, age was the primary correlate of telomere length. Burnout, sleep-related impairment, and mental quality of life moderated the association between fasting plasma glucose and telomere length, showing that combining wearable-measured sleep and autonomic data with blood biomarkers can reveal how mental and cardiometabolic health interact in occupational populations.
Khanal et al., Experimental gerontology (paywalled) · source ↗
Among military conscripts, hydrolysed milk protein alone attenuated the rise in C‑reactive protein over eight weeks relative to protein plus heat‑killed probiotic, while smartwatch‑derived activity and recovery metrics showed no between‑group differences. This indicates that consumer‑grade wearables may be insensitive to immune‑modulation effects that are detectable in serum biomarkers.
Otto et al., Clinical nutrition ESPEN (paywalled) · source ↗