Published on in Vol 6, No 1 (2021): Jan-Mar

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/23364, first published .
Using Wearable Activity Trackers to Predict Type 2 Diabetes: Machine Learning–Based Cross-sectional Study of the UK Biobank Accelerometer Cohort

Using Wearable Activity Trackers to Predict Type 2 Diabetes: Machine Learning–Based Cross-sectional Study of the UK Biobank Accelerometer Cohort

Using Wearable Activity Trackers to Predict Type 2 Diabetes: Machine Learning–Based Cross-sectional Study of the UK Biobank Accelerometer Cohort

Benjamin Lam   1 , BSc ;   Michael Catt   2 , PhD ;   Sophie Cassidy   3 , PhD ;   Jaume Bacardit   1 , PhD ;   Philip Darke   1 , BSc ;   Sam Butterfield   1 , BSc ;   Ossama Alshabrawy   4 , PhD ;   Michael Trenell   5 , PhD ;   Paolo Missier   1 , PhD

1 School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

2 Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

4 Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

5 Faculty of Medical Sciences, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author:

  • Benjamin Lam, BSc
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