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ArticleNutrients2020

Overstated Claims of Efficacy and Safety. Comment On: "Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections".

Colby J Vorland, Michelle M Bohan Brown, Theodore K Kyle, Andrew W Brown

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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 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Common cold.Frontiers in allergy · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Colby J VorlandDepartment of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4225-372X
Michelle M Bohan BrownIndependent Scientist, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Theodore K KyleConscienHealth, Pittsburgh, PA 15241, USA.
Andrew W BrownDepartment of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1758-8205

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
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation N/ANHLBI NIH HHS R25 HL124208NIDDK NIH HHS R25 DK099080NIH HHS R25DK099080NIH HHS R25HL124208
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Calder et al [...].

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusPneumonia, ViralCoronavirus InfectionsHumansImmune SystemNutrientsNutritional StatusPandemicsNutrientsCOVID-19spinsupplementation

Identifiers

PMID32899222
PMCPMC7551966

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