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ReviewInflammatory bowel diseases2012

Adipose tissue and inflammatory bowel disease pathogenesis.

Christopher Fink, Iordanes Karagiannides, Kyriaki Bakirtzi, Charalabos Pothoulakis

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In one paragraph

Review in Inflammatory bowel diseases, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
59citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

59 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 124 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Efficacy of tirzepatide for weight loss and it's comparative effectiveness to weight loss surgery in inflammatory bowel disease.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2026
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  3. Visceral Obesity as a Predictor of Clinical Relapse in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology · 2026
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  17. IgA nephropathy associated with Crohn's disease.World journal of methodology · 2023
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christopher FinkInflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Division of Digestive Diseases, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
Iordanes Karagiannides
Kyriaki Bakirtzi
Charalabos Pothoulakis
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Women's Health and Functional Visceral Disorders CenterP50DK064539 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MAYER, EMERAN A · 2002 to 2017
$17.5M
GASTROENTEROLOGYT32DK007180 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI JENSEN, DENNIS MICHAEL · 1986 to 2025
$10.0M
Mechanisms of Neurotensin in Intestinal InflammationR01DK060729 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI POTHOULAKIS, CHARALABOS · 2002 to 2017
$5.0M
SUBSTANCE P AND INTESTINAL INFLAMMATIONR01DK047343 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI POTHOULAKIS, CHARALABOS · 1994 to 2014
$4.2M
Chronic stress mediates fat-related changes in insulin signaling and gut motilityRC1DK086150 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI BRADESI, SYLVIE, POTHOULAKIS, CHARALABOS · 2009 to 2010
$983k
NIDDK NIH HHS 1P50 DK64539NIDDK NIH HHS DK47343NIDDK NIH HHS DK60729NIDDK NIH HHS P50 DK064539NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK047343NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK060729NIDDK NIH HHS RC1 DK086150NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007180NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK07180
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Creeping fat has long been recognized as an indicator of Crohn's disease (CD) activity. Although most patients with CD have normal or low body mass index (BMI), the ratio of intraabdominal fat to total abdominal fat is far greater than that of controls. The obesity epidemic has instructed us on the inflammatory nature of hypertrophic adipose tissue and similarities between mesenteric depots in obese and CD patients can be drawn. However, several important physiological differences exist between these two depots as well. While the molecular basis of the crosstalk between mesenteric adipose and the inflamed intestine in CD is largely unknown, novel evidence implicates neuropeptides along with adipocyte-derived paracrine mediators (adipokines) as potential targets for future investigations and highlight adipose tissue physiology as a potential important determinant in the course of IBD.

Indexed as

Adipose TissueHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesPrognosis

Identifiers

PMID22407798
PMCPMC3374883
OpenAlexW2159395450

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Registered trials

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