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ArticleNature reviews. Endocrinology2018

Obesity: Trends in underweight and obesity - scale of the problem.

Jack A Yanovski

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Article in Nature reviews. Endocrinology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52citing papers in PubMed
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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

52 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Jack A YanovskiSection on Growth and Obesity, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Dr., Room 13330 MSC 1103, Bethesda, Maryland 208921103, USA.

Funding

Physiology, Psychology, and Genetics of ObesityZIAHD000641 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI YANOVSKI, JACK A. · 2009 to 2025
$24.8M
Physiology, Psychology, and Genetics of ObesityZ01HD000641 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI YANOVSKI, JACK A. · 1996 to 2008
$4.6M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 HD000641Intramural NIH HHS Z99 HD999999Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HD000641
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

OverweightThinnessAdolescentAdultBody Mass IndexChildHumansObesity

Identifiers

PMID29170540
PMCPMC5800307

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