Journals should no longer accept 'obesity paradox' articles.

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.

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.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI-mortality association.Population studies · 2023
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2. Determining whether ethnic minorities with severe obesity face a disproportionate risk of serious disease and death from COVID-19: outcomes from a Southern California-based retrospective cohort study.BMJ open · 2022
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3. Exploring the association between BMI and mortality in Australian women and men with and without diabetes: the AusDiab study.Diabetologia · 2019
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4. Central Obesity in Older Adults: What Should Be the Priority?Journal of the American Heart Association · 2018
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5. Obesity is bad regardless of the obesity paradox for hypertension and heart disease.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2018
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6. The obesity paradox in cancer: clinical insights and perspectives.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2018
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7. Editors' note: Omitting obesity treatment leads to poor outcomes, even in those who appear to be metabolically healthy.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2018
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  The 'obesity paradox' may not be a paradox at all.2017

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