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ReviewGastroenterology clinics of North America2023

Disparities in Access and Quality of Obesity Care.

Tiffani Bell Washington, Veronica R Johnson, Karla Kendrick, Awab Ali Ibrahim, Lucy Tu, Kristen Sun, Fatima Cody Stanford

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In one paragraph

Review in Gastroenterology clinics of North America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
89citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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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

89 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Biopsychosocial and Environmental Factors That Impact Brain-Gut-Microbiome Interactions in Obesity.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2026
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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

7 authors.

Tiffani Bell WashingtonHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: TiffaniBell@hsph.harvard.edu.
Veronica R JohnsonDepartment of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Karla KendrickBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Awab Ali IbrahimPediatric Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Lucy TuDepartment of Sociology, Harvard College, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard College, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Kristen SunBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Fatima Cody StanfordDepartment of Medicine- Neuroendocrine Unit, Pediatric Endocrinology, MGH Weight Center, Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 430, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Funding

ROLE OF DIETARY CONSTITUENTS ON GENE EXPRESSION IN INTESTINAL EPITHELIUMP30DK040561 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Alessio Fasano · 1994 to 2026
$31.6M
Creating Opportunities for Unparalleled Researchers to Achieve Growth and Excellence (COURAGE)U24DK132733 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MORONE, NATALIA E., STANFORD, FATIMA CODY · 2022 to 2025
$3.3M
NIDDK NIH HHS L30 DK118710NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK040561NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK132733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity is a chronic disease and a significant public health threat predicated on complex genetic, psychological, and environmental factors. Individuals with higher body mass index are more likely to avoid health care due to weight stigma. Disparities in obesity care disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities. In addition to this unequal disease burden, access to obesity treatment varies significantly. Even if treatment options are theoretically productive, they may be more difficult for low-income families, and racial and ethnic minorities to implement in practice secondary to socioeconomic factors. Lastly, the outcomes of undertreatment are significant. Disparities in obesity foreshadow integral inequality in health outcomes, including disability, and premature mortality.

Indexed as

Delivery of Health CareObesityBody Mass IndexChronic DiseaseHumansSocioeconomic FactorsUnited StatesAccess to careDisparitiesHealth equityQuality obesity careStigma

Identifiers

PMID37197884
PMCPMC10198472

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