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ArticleThe American journal of clinical nutrition2017

Central adiposity and the overweight risk paradox in aging: follow-up of 130,473 UK Biobank participants.

Kirsty Bowman, Janice L Atkins, João Delgado, Katarina Kos, George A Kuchel, Alessandro Ble, Luigi Ferrucci, David Melzer

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Article in The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
10.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

61 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Kirsty BowmanEpidemiology and Public Health Group and.
Janice L AtkinsEpidemiology and Public Health Group and.
João DelgadoEpidemiology and Public Health Group and.
Katarina KosDiabetes and Obesity Research Group, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom.
George A KuchelUConn Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT; and.
Alessandro BleEpidemiology and Public Health Group and.
Luigi FerrucciNational Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD.
David MelzerEpidemiology and Public Health Group and d.melzer@exeter.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0170-3838
University of Exeter · GBNational Institute on Aging · USUConn Health · US

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_QA137853Medical Research Council MR/M023095/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdiposityAgingBody Mass IndexWaist-Hip RatioAdipose TissueAgedBiological Specimen BanksCoronary Artery DiseaseFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedObesityObesity, AbdominalOverweightRisk Factorsadiposityagingbody mass indexcoronary artery diseasemortalityolder personsoverweightUK Biobankwaist-hip ratio

Identifiers

PMID28566307
PMCPMC5486197
OpenAlexW2618182408

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