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ArticlePLoS medicine2012

Manufacturing epidemics: the role of global producers in increased consumption of unhealthy commodities including processed foods, alcohol, and tobacco.

David Stuckler, Martin McKee, Shah Ebrahim, Sanjay Basu

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05549388 (Effect of Front-of-Package Labels on the Intent to Purchase Packaged Foods in Ethiopia), which is not on this map. Cited by 286 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT05549388 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Effect of Front-of-Package Labels on the Intent to Purchase Packaged Foods in Ethiopia

TypeinterventionalSponsorJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthRan2022 to 2023Enrolled1,200ConditionsCardiovascular DiseasesArmsFront-of-pack labeling
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

286 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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226 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

David StucklerDepartment of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ds450@cam.ac.uk
Martin McKee
Shah Ebrahim
Sanjay Basu

Funding

Wellcome Trust 084674
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CommerceHealthInternationalityAlcohol DrinkingDeveloped CountriesDeveloping CountriesEconomicsFast FoodsHumansSmoking

Identifiers

PMID22745605
PMCPMC3383750

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