Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27175106›Full record

ArticleJournal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition2016

The data do not seem to support a benefit to BCAA supplementation during periods of caloric restriction.

Brad P Dieter, Brad Jon Schoenfeld, Alan A Aragon

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Article in Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Brad P DieterProvidence Medical Research Center, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital, Research Discovery Lab, Spokane, WA USA.
Brad Jon SchoenfeldDepartment of Health Sciences, Lehman College, Bronx, NY USA.
Alan A AragonAARR, Northridge, CA USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

J Int Soc Sports Nutr 13:1-015-0112-9, 2016 describe the efficacy of branched chain amino acid (BCAA) supplementation and resistance training for maintaining lean body mass during a calorie-restricted diet, and claim that this occurs with concurrent losses in fat mass. However, the reported results appear to be at odds with the data presented on changes in fat mass. This letter discusses the issues with the paper.

Indexed as

Amino Acids, Branched-ChainBody CompositionCaloric RestrictionDietary SupplementsHumansResistance TrainingAmino Acids, Branched-Chain

Identifiers

PMID27175106
PMCPMC4865017

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