ArticleDiabetes spectrum : a publication of the American Diabetes Association2020
What Makes Nutrition Research So Difficult to Conduct and Interpret?
Article in Diabetes spectrum : a publication of the American Diabetes Association, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Dietary Patterns Associated With Anti-inflammatory Effects: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses.Nutrition reviews · 2026Pooled it
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- Ultra-processed foods consumption and health-related outcomes: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- The Effect of Hokkaido Red Wines on Vascular Outcomes in Healthy Adult Men: A Pilot Study.Nutrients · 2023Trial
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- Association between sources of nutrition information and self-perceived nutrition competence of healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Exclusive Breastfeeding Is Not Ensuring an Adequate Vitamin B Status in Premature Infants with Very Low Birth Weight.Nutrients · 2026Article
- The Use of Organoid Cultures in Advancing Nutrition Research.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Review
- Dietary and Lifestyle Interventions to Mitigate Oxidative Stress in Male and Female Fertility: Practical Insights for Infertility Management-A Narrative Review.Metabolites · 2025Review
- Participatory Research in Clinical Studies: An Innovative Approach to Co-creating Nutritional and Physical Activity Recommendations for Older Adults With Sarcopenia (FOOP-Sarc Project).Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Ethical Issues and Challenges Regarding the Use of Mental Health Questionnaires in Public Health Nutrition Research.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Combined effects of genetic background and diet on mouse metabolism and gene expression.iScience · 2024Article
- Exploring the potential utility of a single-item perceived diet quality measure.Nutrition research and practice · 2024Article
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- Pork Meat Composition and Health: A Review of the Evidence.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The effect of intermittent fasting on microbiota as a therapeutic approach in obesity.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
- Dietary Composition, Angiographic Coronary Disease, and Cardiovascular Outcomes in the WISE Study (Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation).Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Therapeutic trials for long COVID-19: A call to action from the interventions taskforce of the RECOVER initiative.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Sulforaphane as a potential modifier of calorie-induced inflammation: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- MS care: integrating advanced therapies and holistic management.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
Conducting and interpreting nutrition research involves consideration of the research question, study design, wide variability of nutrients in foods and dietary patterns, food environment, approaches used to collect and analyze dietary data, and manner in which results are reported. This article reviews all of these considerations with regard to diabetes-related nutrition research.
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Registered trials
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