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ArticleThe Permanente journal2019

Why I Treat Obesity.

Adam Gilden Tsai

Abstract readPersonal Narrative
In one paragraph

Article in The Permanente journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing 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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

1 author.

Adam Gilden TsaiDepartment of Adult Obesity Prevention and Treatment, Care Management Institute, Oakland, CA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this narrative, I describe a patient who has lost 25% of her starting body weight and the behaviors that she practices to maintain this weight loss. Patients who have lost weight have reductions in metabolism that are out of proportion to their amount of weight loss. They also have increases in appetite. I propose that physicians must improve in their treatment of obesity as a chronic disease. To achieve this, they must understand the physiologic and behavioral barriers to long-term weight loss, and they must be open to the use of medications for treating obesity.

Indexed as

Anti-Obesity AgentsDiet, ReducingEnergy IntakeEnergy MetabolismExerciseFemaleHumansMiddle AgedObesityWeight LossAnti-Obesity Agents

Identifiers

PMID31167707
PMCPMC6550312

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