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Analysis of eating habits

  • US 7,840,269 B2
  • Filed: 08/31/2007
  • Issued: 11/23/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A gastric apparatus, comprising:

  • a set of one or more implantable antral electrodes, configured to be coupled to an antral site of an antrum of a subject and to generate an antral electrode signal responsive to a property of the antrum; and

    a control unit, configured to;

    receive and analyze the antral electrode signal,determine a time delay between an onset of eating by the subject and a change in electrical activity in the antrum, the change in electrical activity determined responsive to the antral electrode signal, andresponsively to the delay, determine whether food ingested by the subject is predominantly solid or liquid.

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