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Population differences in wearable device wear time: Rescuing data to address biases and advance health equity

2026-03-06 health informatics Title + abstract only
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Wearable devices present transformative opportunities for personalized healthcare through continuous monitoring of digital biomarkers; however, individual variations in device wear time could mask or otherwise impact signal identification. Despite the widespread adoption of wearable devices in research, no comprehensive framework exists for understanding how wear time varies across populations or for addressing wear time-related biases in analysis. Using Fitbit data from 11,901 participants in t...

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