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ReviewCurrent obesity reports2018

Food Cues and Obesity: Overpowering Hormones and Energy Balance Regulation.

Renata Belfort-DeAguiar, Dongju Seo

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Review in Current obesity reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Renata Belfort-DeAguiarDepartment of Internal Medicine Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 Cedar Street, TAC S135, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA. Renata.Aguiar@yale.edu.
Dongju SeoDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 2 Church Street S. Suite 209, New Haven, CT, 06519, USA. Dongju.Seo@yale.edu.
Yale University · US

Funding

Yale Diabetes Research CenterP30DK045735 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GERALD I SHULMAN · 1993 to 2026
$44.0M
Yale University Clinical and Translational Science Award ProgramUL1TR000142 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SHERWIN, ROBERT S · 2012 to 2015
$31.8M
Multimodal Neuroimaging of Stress, Arousal and Alcoholism RiskK08AA023545 · NIAAA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SEO, DONGJU · 2015 to 2019
$948k
Effect of Circulating Glucose on Eating Behavior and Brain Activation in DiabetesK23DK098286 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BELFORT DE AGUIAR, RENATA DA SILVA · 2013 to 2016
$594k
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences UL1 TR00142National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases K23 DK098286-02National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism K08-AA023545NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000142NIAAA NIH HHS K08 AA023545NIDDK NIH HHS K23 DK098286NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK045735
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewIn the modern obesogenic environment, food cues play a crucial role in the development of obesity by disrupting hormone and energy balance mechanisms. Thus, it is critical to understand the neurobiology of feeding behaviors and obesity in the context of ubiquitous food cues. The current paper reviews the physiology of feeding, hormonal regulation of energy balance, and food cue responses and discusses their contributions to obesity. RECENT

findingsFood cues have strong impact on human physiology. Obese individuals have altered food cue-elicited responses in the brain and periphery, overpowering hormone and energy balance regulation. Disrupted homeostasis during food cue exposure leads to continued food intake, unsuccessful weight management, and poor treatment outcomes, which further contributes to obesity epidemic. Findings from the review emphasize the crucial role of food cues in obesity epidemic, which necessitates multidimensional approaches to the prevention and treatment of obesity, including psychosocial interventions to reduce food cue reactivity, along with conventional treatment.

Indexed as

Child Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaDiet, HealthyEnergy IntakeEnergy MetabolismFood PreferencesAdultAnimalsChildChild BehaviorCuesHumansObesityPediatric ObesityRiskSelf-ControlWeight Reduction ProgramsBrain activity hormoneEnergy balanceFood cuesObesity

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PMID29619632
PMCPMC5959777
OpenAlexW2795417413

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