Fitness games could help get new mums moving

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Fitness games might help new mums with a high risk of heart disease to move more, according to international researchers. The team recruited 127 new mums who had pregnancy complications, and gave them wearable step trackers and sent daily text reminders. 63 of them were also placed in virtual teams and enrolled in a game with points and levels for daily step goal achievement. After 12 weeks, the new mums in the 'gamified' program achieved their step goals more often than those who just received the text reminders.

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conference: JAMA Cardiology

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Organisation/s: University of Pennsylvania, USA

Funder: This work was funded in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (grants K23HL153667 and HD65987 to Dr Lewey and R56HL136730 to Dr Levine). This work was also supported in part by the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics and the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (grant UL1TR001878 to Drs Lewey and Levine).

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