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ArticleNutrients2020

Special Low Protein Foods in the UK: An Examination of Their Macronutrient Composition in Comparison to Regular Foods.

Georgina Wood, Sharon Evans, Kiri Pointon-Bell, Júlio César Rocha, Anita MacDonald

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Article in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Georgina WoodFaculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences, Birmingham City University, City South Campus, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3TN, UK.
Sharon EvansBirmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK.
Kiri Pointon-BellFaculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences, Birmingham City University, City South Campus, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3TN, UK.
Júlio César RochaNutrition & Metabolism, NOVA Medical School, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campo Mártires da Pátria, 130, 1169-056 Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-4977-8345
Anita MacDonaldBirmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK.
Birmingham City University · GBBirmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust · GBCentre for Health Technology and Services Research · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Special low protein foods (SLPFs) are essential in a low phenylalanine diet for treating phenylketonuria (PKU). With little known about their nutritional composition, all SLPFs on UK prescription were studied (

Indexed as

Nutritive ValueDietary FatsDietary ProteinsFood, FormulatedFood LabelingHumansLegislation, FoodNutrientsPhenylalaninePhenylketonuriasUnited KingdomDietary FatsDietary ProteinsNutrientsPhenylalaninemacronutrientsnutritional compositionphenylketonuriaspecial low protein foodsUK

Identifiers

PMID32630585
PMCPMC7353443
OpenAlexW3037013753

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