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ArticleNutrients2021

Vegan Diet and Bone Health-Results from the Cross-Sectional RBVD Study.

Juliane Menzel, Klaus Abraham, Gabriele I Stangl, Per Magne Ueland, Rima Obeid, Matthias B Schulze, Isabelle Herter-Aeberli, Tanja Schwerdtle, Cornelia Weikert

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Article in Nutrients, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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34citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
9.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 67 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

9 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Juliane MenzelDepartment of Food Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, 10589 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7938-4251
Klaus AbrahamDepartment of Food Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, 10589 Berlin, Germany.
Gabriele I StanglInstitute for Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.
Per Magne UelandSection for Pharmacology, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, 5021 Bergen, Norway.
Rima ObeidDepartment of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, 66421 Homburg, Germany.
Matthias B SchulzeDepartment of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, 14558 Nuthetal, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0830-5277
Isabelle Herter-AeberliLaboratory of Human Nutrition, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Tanja SchwerdtleGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, 10589 Berlin, Germany.
Cornelia WeikertDepartment of Food Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, 10589 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1756-0146
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment · DEUniversity of Potsdam · DEETH Zurich · CHMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg · DESaarland University · DEUniversity of Bergen · NO

Funding

Elsbeth Bonhoff Stiftung 167
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scientific evidence suggests that a vegan diet might be associated with impaired bone health. Therefore, a cross-sectional study (

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Bone DensityAdultBiomarkersBody Mass IndexCalcaneusCross-Sectional StudiesDiet, VeganFemaleFibroblast Growth Factor-23HumansMaleMiddle AgedNutritional StatusUltrasonographyBiomarkersFGF23 protein, humanFibroblast Growth Factor-23biomarkerbone healthBUAdietQUSreduced rank regressionRRRSOSvegan

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PMID33669942
PMCPMC7924854
OpenAlexW3131914678

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