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Trial reportNutrients2020

PROFAST: A Randomized Trial Assessing the Effects of Intermittent Fasting and

Audrey Tay, Hannah Pringle, Elise Penning, Lindsay D Plank, Rinki Murphy

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
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Trial report in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed, 10 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 59 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Audrey TayDepartment of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-1929-8906
Hannah PringleDiscipline of Nutrition & Dietetics, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
Elise PenningDiscipline of Nutrition & Dietetics, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
Lindsay D PlankDepartment of Surgery, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0003-2737-0151
Rinki MurphyDepartment of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
University of Auckland · NZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Both intermittent fasting and specific probiotics have shown promise in improving glucose tolerance with a potential for synergistic effects through alterations to gut microbiota. In this randomized, double-blinded, two-arm feasibility study, we investigated whether intermittent fasting, supplemented with

Indexed as

FastingLacticaseibacillus rhamnosusAdultBlood GlucoseBody Mass IndexCaloric RestrictionDouble-Blind MethodFemaleGlycated HemoglobinHumansMaleMental HealthMiddle AgedPrediabetic StateProbioticsQuality of LifeBlood GlucoseGlycated Hemoglobinintermittent fastingLacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HN001prediabetesprobiotics

Identifiers

PMID33212907
PMCPMC7698325
OpenAlexW3098144176

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Registered trials

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