Unreformed nutritional epidemiology: a lamp post in the dark forest.

What it found

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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.

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.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Grilling the data: application of specification curve analysis to red meat and all-cause mortality.Journal of clinical epidemiology · 2024
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2. Assessments of risk of bias in systematic reviews of observational nutritional epidemiologic studies are often not appropriate or comprehensive: a methodological study.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2021
   Pooled it
3. Association of dietary patterns derived by reduced-rank regression with colorectal cancer risk and mortality.European journal of nutrition · 2024
   Trial
4. Eat UP: a precise, science-based, value-aware, translatable diet quality metric for public health nutrition.Public health nutrition · 2026
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5. "Maybe it's Not Just the Food?" A Food and Mood Focus Group Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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6. [Saturated fatty acids and cardiovascular risk : Is a revision of the recommendations on nutrition indicated?]Herz · 2022
   Review
7. Perspective: Big Data and Machine Learning Could Help Advance Nutritional Epidemiology.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021
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8. Characteristics and quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational nutritional epidemiology: a cross-sectional study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2021
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9. Evidence on coffee consumption and pancreatic cancer: not great, not terrible.European journal of epidemiology · 2020
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10. Objectives, design and main findings until 2020 from the Rotterdam Study.European journal of epidemiology · 2020
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  Nutritional epidemiology: forest, trees and leaves.2019

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Abstract

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