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ArticleNutrients2024

Lack of Biological Plausibility and Major Methodological Issues Cast Doubt on the Association between Aspartame and Autism. Comment on Fowler et al. Daily Early-Life Exposures to Diet Soda and Aspartame Are Associated with Autism in Males: A Case-Control Study.

Sabrina Ayoub-Charette, Tauseef Ahmad Khan, Laura Chiavaroli, Bernadene A Magnuson, John L Sievenpiper

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Article in Nutrients, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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.

Sabrina Ayoub-CharetteDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7087-7815
Tauseef Ahmad KhanDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3713-2248
Laura ChiavaroliDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8900-6366
Bernadene A MagnusonHealth Science Consultants Inc., Collingwood, ON L9Y 0Z5, Canada.
John L SievenpiperDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.
St. Michael's Hospital · CA

Funding

CIHR 476251
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The case-control study by Fowler et al [...].

Indexed as

AspartameAutistic DisorderCase-Control StudiesDietHumansMaleSweetening AgentsAspartameSweetening Agents

Identifiers

PMID38474803
PMCPMC10934399
OpenAlexW4392239391

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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