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ArticleBioscience of microbiota, food and health2018

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Junichi Minami, Noriyuki Iwabuchi, Miyuki Tanaka, Koji Yamauchi, Jin-Zhong Xiao, Fumiaki Abe, Naoki Sakane

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Article in Bioscience of microbiota, food and health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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61citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
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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

61 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Junichi MinamiFood Ingredients & Technology Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., 5-1-83 Higashihara, Zama-shi, Kanagawa 252-8583, Japan.
Noriyuki IwabuchiFood Ingredients & Technology Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., 5-1-83 Higashihara, Zama-shi, Kanagawa 252-8583, Japan.
Miyuki TanakaFood Ingredients & Technology Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., 5-1-83 Higashihara, Zama-shi, Kanagawa 252-8583, Japan.
Koji YamauchiFood Ingredients & Technology Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., 5-1-83 Higashihara, Zama-shi, Kanagawa 252-8583, Japan.
Jin-Zhong XiaoNext Generation Science Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., 5-1-83 Higashihara, Zama-shi, Kanagawa 252-8583, Japan.
Fumiaki AbeFood Ingredients & Technology Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., 5-1-83 Higashihara, Zama-shi, Kanagawa 252-8583, Japan.
Naoki SakaneDivision of Preventive Medicine, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Kyoto Medical Center, 1-1 Mukaihata-cho, Fukakusa, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto 612-8555, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accumulating evidence suggests a relationship between the gut microbiota and the development of obesity, indicating the potential of probiotics as a therapeutic approach.

Indexed as

Bifidobacterium brevebody fat reductionpre-obeserandomized controlled trial

Identifiers

PMID30094122
PMCPMC6081611

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