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ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2019

Inverse Association Between Serum Vitamin B12 Concentration and Obesity Among Adults in the United States.

Yangbo Sun, Minxian Sun, Buyun Liu, Yang Du, Shuang Rong, Guifeng Xu, Linda G Snetselaar, Wei Bao

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Article in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Serum Vitamin D Level and Gut Microbiota in Women.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yangbo SunDepartment of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Minxian SunDepartment of Endocrinology, Wuhan Central Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Buyun LiuDepartment of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Yang DuDepartment of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Shuang RongDepartment of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Guifeng XuDepartment of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Linda G SnetselaarDepartment of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Wei BaoDepartment of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
University of Iowa · USHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

Pulmonary Toxicology Facility CoreP30ES005605 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Brandi Janssen · 1990 to 2026
$40.5M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES005605
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

adultsmicronutrientnutritionobesityvitamin B12

Identifiers

PMID31316466
PMCPMC6610317
OpenAlexW2951125417

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