Biases in obesity research: Identify, correct, endorse, or abandon effort?

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.

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.

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

1. How fragile are Mediterranean diet interventions? A research-on-research study of randomised controlled trials.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2021
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2. Scientific rigor and credibility in the nutrition research landscape.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2018
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Placebo effects in obesity research.2016
• Comment on
  Weight change among people randomized to minimal intervention control groups in weight loss trials.2016
• Comment on
  Common scientific and statistical errors in obesity research.2016

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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