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ArticleInternational journal of epidemiology2024

Handle with care: challenges associated with ultra-processed foods research.

Lauren E O'Connor, Kirsten A Herrick, Keren Papier

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Article in International journal of epidemiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lauren E O'ConnorBeltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, USA.
Kirsten A HerrickBeltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, USA.
Keren PapierCancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4102-6835

Funding

Cancer Research UK 29186NCI NIH HHSUS National Institutes of Health
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Fast FoodsFood HandlingFood, ProcessedHumanshealthnutritionresearchultra-processed

Identifiers

PMID39191478
PMCPMC11349190

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