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Telemedicine and obesity treatment

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2020

Abstract

The telemedicine shows rapid development in the past decades of 20th century. It's principally based on the transmission of sound, pictures and other kind of data using wireless technology.

The establishing of the telemedicine in the obezitology begins at die end of 20th century. That time shows the technique a rapidly development, but even more, there were first menus made and shared trough the PCs.

All the mend facts are connected due to rapidly increased amount of the people with obesity. In the Czech Republic, approximately 60 % of the adult population suffer obesity or overweight.

The telemedicine would applied specially for the cases as collecting a data about energetically receive, monitoring of physical activity, glycaemia records and the communication between the therapist and the patient. The telemedicine should change the motivation and the adherence of the obesity patients during the treatment in upcoming future.

The results of the patients are better than in the group without telemedicine support. The telemedicine, using and analysing dates, it's the method that could rapidly decrease a costs of the diagnostic and the treatment. (C) 2020, University of Defence, Faculty of Military Health Sciences.

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