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ReviewCurrent obesity reports2016

What Can We Learn from Interventions That Change Fat Distribution?

Pornpoj Pramyothin, Kalypso Karastergiou

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Review in Current obesity reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Pornpoj PramyothinDivision of Nutrition, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Asadang building, 8th floor, 2 Wanglang Road, Bangkoknoi, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
Kalypso KarastergiouDepartment of Medicine, Evans Biomedical Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 650 Albany St, Rm 810, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. kkaraste@bu.edu.
Boston University · USMahidol University · TH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epidemiological studies have illustrated convincingly that fat distribution is associated with cardiometabolic risk. Fat deposition preferentially in the lower body, commonly seen in premenopausal women, is associated with lower risk, while central obesity in men and postmenopausal women is associated with higher risk. Studies of the physiology and the tissue and cellular characteristics of different adipose tissue depots, visceral and abdominal, gluteal, and femoral subcutaneous, corroborate this idea. In this report, we chose to focus on interventions-surgical, hormonal, lifestyle, and pharmacological-that directly or indirectly affect fat distribution, seeking further evidence for its pathophysiological significance.

Indexed as

Adipose TissueBody CompositionBody Fat DistributionCardiovascular DiseasesHumansIntra-Abdominal FatObesityRisk FactorsFat distributionFemoral adipose tissueGluteal adipose tissueVisceral adipose tissue

Identifiers

PMID27055863
OpenAlexW2331411150

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Registered trials

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