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ReviewNutrients2017

Attenuating the Biologic Drive for Weight Regain Following Weight Loss: Must What Goes Down Always Go Back Up?

Christopher L Melby, Hunter L Paris, Rebecca M Foright, James Peth

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Review in Nutrients, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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61citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

4 authors.

Christopher L MelbyDepartment of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Nutrition and Metabolic Fitness Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. chris.melby@colostate.edu.
Hunter L ParisDepartment of Kinesiology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. hlparis@indiana.edu.
Rebecca M ForightAnchutz Medical Campus, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, CO 80045, USA. Rebecca.Foright@ucdenver.edu.
James PethDepartment of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Nutrition and Metabolic Fitness Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. james.peth@colostate.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolic adaptations occur with weight loss that result in increased hunger with discordant simultaneous reductions in energy requirements-producing the so-called

Indexed as

AppetiteBasal MetabolismDiet, ReducingEnergy IntakeEnergy MetabolismGhrelinHumansHungerLeptinLife StyleObesityThermodynamicsWeight GainWeight LossGhrelinLeptindiet compositionenergy expenditureenergy gapenergy intakeexerciseweight regain

Identifiers

PMID28481261
PMCPMC5452198

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