Trial reportJournal of obesity2018
Effects of a Meal Replacement on Body Composition and Metabolic Parameters among Subjects with Overweight or Obesity.
Trial report in Journal of obesity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Meal replacements on obesity and leptin: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025Pooled it
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- Protein-enriched intermittent meal replacement combined with moderate-intensity training for weight loss and body composition in overweight women.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Timing of meal replacement on body weight: a multicenter open-labeled randomized trial.Endocrine · 2025Trial
- Mobile-Based Platform With a Low-Calorie Dietary Intervention Involving Prepackaged Food for Weight Loss for People With Overweight and Obesity in China: Half-Year Follow-Up Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Trial
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- Efficacy and Sustainability of Diabetes-Specific Meal Replacement on Obese and Overweight Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: Study Approaches for a Randomised Controlled Trial and Impact of COVID-19 on Trial Progress.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Effect of Two Meal Replacement strategies on Cardiovascular Risk Parameters in Advanced Age Patients with Obesity and Osteoarthritis.Nutrients · 2020Trial
- Obesity medications and precision nutrition: synergistic interventions and integrated approach in obesity management.Current obesity reports · 2026Review
- Metabolic and molecular evaluation of Moringa oleifera-supplemented ketogenic meal replacement in healthy C57BL/6 mice.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- The effectiveness of self-directed meal replacement-assisted intermittent fasting in adults.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Article
- The effect of meal replacements therapy on blood pressure and C-reactive protein: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Clinical hypertension · 2025Review
- Weight loss, changes in body composition and inflammatory status after a very low-energy ketogenic therapy (VLEKT): does gender matter?Journal of translational medicine · 2024Article
- High-Caloric Diets in Adolescence Impair Specific GABAergic Subpopulations, Neurogenesis, and Alter Astrocyte Morphology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- A comparison of virtual and in person delivery of a full meal replacement program for obesity.Obesity science & practice · 2024Article
- Physiopathology and Treatment of Obesity and Overweight: A Proposal for a New Anorectic.Journal of obesity · 2024Review
- Sex/Gender Differences in Obesity Prevalence, Comorbidities, and Treatment.Current obesity reports · 2021Review
- Could Reducing Body Fatness Reduce the Risk of Aggressive Prostate Cancer via the Insulin Signalling Pathway? A Systematic Review of the Mechanistic Pathway.Metabolites · 2021Review
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12 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Meal replacement plans are effective tools for weight loss and improvement of various clinical characteristics but not sustainable due to the severe energy restriction. The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of meal replacement, specifically 388 kcal in total energy, on body composition and metabolic parameters in individuals with overweight and obesity from a Chinese population. A parallel, randomized controlled trial was performed with 174 participants (ChiCTR-OOC-17012000). The intervention group (
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