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ArticleJournal of complementary & integrative medicine2019

Differences in Nominal Significance (DINS) Error leads to invalid conclusions: Letter regarding, "Diet enriched with fresh coconut decreases blood glucose levels and body weight in normal adults".

Cynthia M Kroeger, Andrew W Brown, David B Allison

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Article in Journal of complementary & integrative medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 54% of its field
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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Cynthia M KroegerThe University of Sydney, Charles Perkins Centre and School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, D17, Level 6, The Hub, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Andrew W BrownDepartment of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN,United States of America.
David B AllisonDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN,United States of America.
Indiana University Bloomington · USUniversity of Sydney · AU

Funding

Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity ResearchR25HL124208 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ALLISON, DAVID B, BROWN, ANDREW W · 2014 to 2023
$1.8M
The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity ResearchR25DK099080 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI DAVID B ALLISON, Andrew W Brown · 2013 to 2026
$1.2M
Research-Reporting Fidelity within Dietary Weight-Loss Supplement Scientific LiteratureF32DK107157 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI KROEGER, CYNTHIA M. · 2015 to 2017
$149k
NHLBI NIH HHS R25 HL124208NIDDK NIH HHS F32 DK107157NIDDK NIH HHS R25 DK099080
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Blood GlucoseCocosAdultBody WeightDietHumansBlood GlucoseDINS errornutritionobesityresearch rigorType I error

Identifiers

PMID31199765
PMCPMC6957306
OpenAlexW2953375130

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Registered trials

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