EFFECT OF THE STEPTM AND HOME-MONITORING TECHNOLOGY IN RURAL PRIMARY CARE ON BLOOD PRESSURE AND FITNESS IN METABOLIC SYNDROME
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Adults with metabolic syndrome (MetS) are at a high risk for developing type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease. As well, rural populations have lower access to lifestyle modifications (recreational centres) to manage this condition. Adults with MetS were recruited from rural southwestern Ontario. At each visit, resting blood pressure (BP) was measured, a predictive fitness (V02inax) test was offered and exercise was prescribed using the Step Test Exercise Prescription (STEPTM). Home-monitoring technology included a BlackberryTM, BP monitor and a pedometer. Clinical systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) decreased from baseline to 3 months (VI) and continued to decrease into 6 months (V2). At-home SBP decreased at VI and was maintained at V2. At-home DBP followed the same pattern as clinical. A lifestyle intervention in primary care using STEP with home-monitoring technology decreased BP and increased fitness and quality of life in adults from rural communities with MetS.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".