Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29896621›Full record

ArticleJAMA2018

Reducing Calories to Lose Weight.

Kevin D Hall, Dale A Schoeller, Andrew W Brown

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Article in JAMA, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing 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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. How Filipinos View Obesity: Findings From the ACTION APAC Study.Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies · 2026
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  10. Predictive Mathematical Models of Weight Loss.Current diabetes reports · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kevin D HallLaboratory of Biological Modeling, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland.
Dale A SchoellerBiotechnology Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison.
Andrew W BrownDepartment of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington.

Funding

Computational modeling of human metabolism, body weight and compositionZIADK013036 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI HALL, KEVIN · 2009 to 2024
$3.6M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Body WeightEnergy IntakeHumansObesityWeight Loss

Identifiers

PMID29896621

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