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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2020

Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing?

Joseph Firth, James E Gangwisch, Alessandra Borisini, Robyn E Wootton, Emeran A Mayer

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 211 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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211citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
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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

211 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Joseph FirthDivision of Psychology and Mental Health, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Oxford Road, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK joseph.firth@manchester.ac.uk.
James E GangwischDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA.
Alessandra BorisiniSection of Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology Laboratory, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
Robyn E WoottonSchool of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Emeran A MayerG Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, UCLA Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/T021780/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Diet, HealthyAnxietyCognitionDepressionGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansInflammationNutritional Physiological PhenomenaNutritional Status

Identifiers

PMID32601102
PMCPMC7322666

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