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ReviewFood science & nutrition2023

The effects of oral sodium bicarbonate supplementation on anthropometric measures in patients with chronic kidney disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.

Fatemeh Navab, Mohammad Hossein Rouhani, Firouzeh Moeinzadeh, Cain C T Clark, Rahele Ziaei

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Review in Food science & nutrition, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Association between serum bicarbonate and low mid-upper arm circumference in patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease: A cross-sectional study.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fatemeh NavabStudent Research Committee, Nutrition and Food Security Research Center and Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutrition and Food Science Isfahan University of Medical Sciences Isfahan Iran.
Mohammad Hossein RouhaniNutrition and Food Security Research Center, Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutrition and Food Science Isfahan University of Medical Sciences Isfahan Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2451-0083
Firouzeh MoeinzadehIsfahan Kidney Diseases Research Center Isfahan University of Medical Sciences Isfahan Iran.
Cain C T ClarkInstitute for Health and Wellbeing Coventry University Coventry UK.
Rahele ZiaeiNutrition and Food Security Research Center, Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutrition and Food Science Isfahan University of Medical Sciences Isfahan Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9771-4936
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · IRCoventry University · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolic acidosis (MA) may play a key role in the pathogenesis of protein-energy wasting (PEW) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). To present a comprehensive synthesis of the effect of oral sodium bicarbonate (SB) supplementation on anthropometric measures in patients with CKD, a systematic review was undertaken in PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, Cochrane CENTRAL, and Google Scholar, of relevant articles published prior to September 2022. The summary statistics of effect size, nonstandardized weighted mean difference (WMD), and 95% confidence interval (CI) were used to compare the effects of SB supplementation on anthropometric parameters vs. control group. To detect probable sources of heterogeneity, a series of predefined subgroup analyses were conducted. In total, 17 studies with 21 treatment arms, including 2203 participants (1149 cases, 1054 controls), met our inclusion criteria and were included in the meta-analysis. SB supplementation had no significant effect on body weight (BW), midarm muscle circumference (MAMC), or lean body mass (LBM) in patients with CKD. There was a significant increase in body mass index (BMI) (MD: 0.59 kg/m

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anthropometricchronic kidney diseasemetabolic acidosismuscle wastingsodium bicarbonate

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PMID37970385
PMCPMC10630834
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