ArticleObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2015
Retraction statement: LA sprouts randomized controlled nutrition, cooking and gardening program reduces obesity and metabolic risk in Latino youth.
Article in Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- "Non-Markovian" and "directional" errors inhibit scientific self-correction and can lead fields of study astray: an illustration using gardening and obesity-related outcomes.BMC medical research methodology · 2025Article
- Errors in the implementation, analysis, and reporting of randomization within obesity and nutrition research: a guide to their avoidance.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Review
- Childhood obesity intervention studies: A narrative review and guide for investigators, authors, editors, reviewers, journalists, and readers to guard against exaggerated effectiveness claims.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2019Review
- Issues with data and analyses: Errors, underlying themes, and potential solutions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors.Nature · 2016Article
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Abstract
The above article, published online on 9 May 2015 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), and in Volume 23, pp. 1244-1251, has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editors-in-Chief, Eric Ravussin and Donna Ryan, the Obesity Society, and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The retraction has been agreed to because the statistical analysis was not correct given the cluster-randomized design, and the wrong degrees of freedom were used. The conclusion that the original paper drew about having demonstrated treatment efficacy was not supported in the corrected analysis. REFERENCE: Gatto, N. M., Martinez, L. C., Spruijt-Metz, D. and Davis, J. N. LA Sprouts randomized controlled nutrition and gardening program reduces obesity and metabolic risk in Latino youth. Obesity 2015;23:1244-1251. doi: 10.1002/oby.21077.
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