Table 1 Descriptive data regarding gender and usage time. User count is reported as numbers. Numbers of active days, fasts, and total fasting hours are reported as medians with an interquartile range in brackets
From: Fasting and weight loss: mobile application-based approach
Short term (30–90 days) | Significance | Long term (91–365 days) | Significance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Males | Females | Males | Females | |||
Total number of users | 8765 (36.6%) | 9972 (41.6%) | 1846 (7.7%) | 3360 (14.0%) | ||
User count in starting weight groups: | ||||||
Overweight | 2364 (31.7%) | 3559 (47.8%) | p < 0.001 | 434 (5.8%) | 1090 (14.6%) | p < 0.001 |
Obese, Class I | 3770 (45.3%) | 2776 (33.4%) | 772 (9.3%) | 1004 (12.1%) | ||
Obese, Class II | 1841 (41.8%) | 1534 (34.8%) | 431 (9.8%) | 599 (13.6%) | ||
Obese, Class III | 661 (35.8%) | 716 (38.7%) | 181 (9.8%) | 290 (15.7%) | ||
Active days of use | 16 [20] | 16 [20] | p = 0.144 | 77 [77] | 76 [76] | p = 0.142 |
Fasts started | 8 [13] | 7 [11] | p < 0.001 | 23 [49] | 16 [39] | p < 0.001 |
Total fasting hours | 127 [202] | 98 [162] | p < 0.001 | 363 [757] | 238 [612] | p < 0.001 |