The consumer PA monitors collect a variety of PA metrics, including distance traveled, step count, sedentary breaks, intensity of activity, heart rate, and sleep tracking. Consumer PA monitors, such as Apple Watch and Fibit, gained popularity among consumers. Historically, activity monitors have been used in research settings to provide objective measurement of physical activity (PA). Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
The sponsors play no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.įunding: This work was supported by University of Vermont Early EXtra Promotion of REsearch and Scholarly Success, an internal and competitive funding program received by YB. Received: MaAccepted: Published: May 26, 2021Ĭopyright: © 2021 Bai et al. PLoS ONE 16(5):Įditor: Patrick Bergman, Linneaus University, SWEDEN
Citation: Bai Y, Tompkins C, Gell N, Dione D, Zhang T, Byun W (2021) Comprehensive comparison of Apple Watch and Fitbit monitors in a free-living setting.
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