Trial reportThe lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology2017
Objective assessment of dietary patterns by use of metabolic phenotyping: a randomised, controlled, crossover trial.
Trial report in The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04461106 (A Two-Phase Study to Investigate Novel Biomarkers of Egg Consumption and Social Marketing Effectiveness of Egg Hubs for Malawian Infants), which is not on this map. Cited by 111 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Two-Phase Study to Investigate Novel Biomarkers of Egg Consumption and Social Marketing Effectiveness of Egg Hubs for Malawian Infants
Who cites it
111 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 240 citations in OpenAlex.
- Environmental Planning and Non-Communicable Diseases: A Systematic Review on the Role of the Metabolomic Profile.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Biomarkers of dietary patterns: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Nutrition reviews · 2022Pooled it
- An umbrella review of the evidence associating diet and cancer risk at 11 anatomical sites.Nature communications · 2021Pooled it
- The effects of plant-based diets on the body and the brain: a systematic review.Translational psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- Upper-gastrointestinal tract metabolite profile regulates glycaemic and satiety responses to meals with contrasting structure: a pilot study.Nature metabolism · 2025Trial
- Diet-induced Weight Loss and Phenotypic Flexibility Among Healthy Overweight Adults: A Randomized Trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Trial
- The Metabolomic Effects of Tripeptide Gut Hormone Infusion Compared to Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Caloric Restriction.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2022Trial
- Urine Metabolites Associated with the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet: Results from the DASH-Sodium Trial.Molecular nutrition & food research · 2021Trial
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- Performance of metabonomic serum analysis for diagnostics in paediatric tuberculosis.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Impact of infant protein supply and other early life factors on plasma metabolome at 5.5 and 8 years of age: a randomized trial.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Trial
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- A randomized controlled trial for overweight and obesity in preschoolers: the More and Less Europe study - an intervention within the STOP project.BMC public health · 2019Trial
- Addressing the pitfalls when designing intervention studies to discover and validate biomarkers of habitual dietary intake.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2019Trial
- Serum untargeted metabolomic profile of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2018Trial
- Randomized trial of a clinic-based weight loss intervention in cancer survivors.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2018Trial
- Complementary feeding with cowpea reduces growth faltering in rural Malawian infants: a blind, randomized controlled clinical trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2017Trial
- Plasma Metabolites From Choline Pathway and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in the PREDIMED (Prevention With Mediterranean Diet) Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2017Trial
- Urinary Hypaphorine as a Candidate Marker of FFQ-Derived Legume Intake Within the EAT-Lancet Framework in Free-Living Adults.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
51 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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16 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundAccurate monitoring of changes in dietary patterns in response to food policy implementation is challenging. Metabolic profiling allows simultaneous measurement of hundreds of metabolites in urine, the concentrations of which can be affected by food intake. We hypothesised that metabolic profiles of urine samples developed under controlled feeding conditions reflect dietary intake and can be used to model and classify dietary patterns of free-living populations.
methodsIn this randomised, controlled, crossover trial, we recruited healthy volunteers (aged 21-65 years, BMI 20-35 kg/m
findingsBetween Aug 13, 2013, and May 18, 2014, we contacted 300 people with a letter of invitation. 78 responded, of whom 26 were eligible and invited to attend a health screening. Of 20 eligible participants who were randomised, 19 completed all four 72 h study stays between Oct 2, 2013, and July 29, 2014, and consumed all the food provided. Analysis of
interpretationUrinary metabolite models developed in a highly controlled environment can classify groups of free-living people into consumers of diets associated with lower or higher non-communicable disease risk on the basis of multivariate metabolite patterns. This approach enables objective monitoring of dietary patterns in population settings and enhances the validity of dietary reporting.
fundingUK National Institute for Health Research and UK Medical Research Council.
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