Fitbit Providing Activity Trackers for NIH-Backed Study on Effects of Lifestyle on Health
Fitbit is supplying 10,000 Charge 2 and Alta HR devices as part of a funding award from the National Institutes of Health to Scripps Research Institute, it said Tuesday. The All of Us program is looking to enroll more than…
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a million participants in research designed to help prevent and treat disease based on individual characteristics, Fitbit said. Data gathered from the program will help researchers understand how differences in lifestyle, environment and biological makeup influence health and disease, it said. The Fitbit devices, provided to a representative sample of study volunteers for a year, will provide data on activity, heart rate and sleep, it said.