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ArticleImmunity2020

Creeping Fat in Crohn's Disease: Innocuous or innocuum?

Peter Smith, Cécile Bénézech

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In one paragraph

Article in Immunity, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Intestinal muscularis in health and disease.Communications biology · 2026
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  4. Can Creeping Fat Be a Prognostic Factor in Crohn's Disease?The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2025
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peter SmithCentre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK.
Cécile BénézechCentre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK. Electronic address: cbenezec@ed.ac.uk.
University of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

British Heart Foundation RE/18/5/3426
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Crohn's disease, the characteristic expansion of mesenteric tissue on sites of intestinal inflammation is known as creeping fat. In a recent issue of Cell, Ha et al. report that translocation of gut bacteria to the mesenteries is associated with the formation of creeping fat.

Indexed as

Crohn DiseaseGastrointestinal MicrobiomeAdipose TissueHumansInflammationMesentery

Identifiers

PMID33207215
OpenAlexW3104612012

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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