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Dengel co-authors paper in Frontiers in Medical Technology journal

Dr. Donald Dengel co-authored an article on research using Fitbits to see if low activity and poor sleep are linked to frailty in stem cell transplant patients.

Donald Dengel

Don Dengel, PhD, professor of exercise physiology in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP), is a co-author on an article published in the journal, Frontiers in Medical Technology. The article, entitled, “Frailty is associated with low physical activity and poor sleep quality in patients undergoing myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation: A Fitbit® pilot study,” examined whether wearable sensor data reflecting physical activity and sleep are associated with pre-transplant frailty status in patients undergoing myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Drs. Will Juckett and Nick Evanoff, graduates of the School of Kinesiology, were also co-authors on this article.