Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22270698›Full record

Trial reportEnvironmental health and preventive medicine2012

Effectiveness of diet versus exercise intervention on weight reduction in local Japanese residents.

Chihiro Toji, Naoko Okamoto, Tomomi Kobayashi, Yoko Furukawa, Sanae Tanaka, Kayoko Ueji, Mitsuru Fukui, Chigusa Date

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Environmental health and preventive medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Chihiro TojiDepartment of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Natural Science and Ecological Awareness, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Nara Women's University, Kitauoya-nishimachi, Nara 630-8506, Japan. touji@mukogawa-u.ac.jp
Naoko Okamoto
Tomomi Kobayashi
Yoko Furukawa
Sanae Tanaka
Kayoko Ueji
Mitsuru Fukui
Chigusa Date
Mukogawa Women's University · JPKio University · JPKyoto Koka Women's University · JPOsaka City University · JPShigakkan University · JPUniversity of Hyogo · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo evaluate the effect of diet versus exercise intervention on weight reduction.

methodsParticipants were randomly divided by gender, age, and living area into four groups: group DE (diet and exercise, n = 16), group D (diet only, n = 15), group E (exercise only, n = 15), and group C (control, n = 16). This study ultimately aimed to help participants reduce their body mass index (BMI) by 7% of baseline value. Subjects were 62 residents (men and women ranging in age from 40 to 69 years) of two residential areas in Nara Prefecture, Japan, who participated in annual health checkups in 2006. BMI of the participants was ≥24 and <28 kg/m² at baseline examination. All participants agreed to undergo a 6-month intervention between January 2007 and September 2007.

resultsIn our intention-to-treat analysis, mean change in BMI from baseline to final examination was as follows: group DE mean BMI decreased 6.6%, group D mean BMI decreased 5.3%, group E mean BMI decreased 2.3%, and group C mean BMI decreased 2.2%. The reduction in BMI from baseline to final examination was significant in all groups (DE, p < 0.001; D, p < 0.001; E, p = 0.009; C, p = 0.019). Further, mean abdominal circumference was significantly reduced in all groups. Blood glucose levels were significantly reduced only in group DE (p = 0.047).

conclusionCombined intervention with diet and exercise proved to be effective in weight reduction, whereas exercise intervention alone was not found to be effective.

Indexed as

Diet, ReducingExercise TherapyWeight LossAdultAgedBody Mass IndexFemaleHumansJapanMaleMiddle AgedOverweight

Identifiers

PMID22270698
PMCPMC3390570
OpenAlexW2010432725

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.