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ReviewIndian pediatrics2025

Lifestyle Medicine and the Role of the Pediatrician.

Mahima Gulati, Suneela Garg

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Review in Indian pediatrics, 2025. 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 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mahima GulatiDepartment of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, University of Connecticut Health School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA. Mahima.Gulati@Quinnipiac.edu.ORCID 0009-0004-6726-4163
Suneela GargCommunity Medicine, MAMC, Delhi Chair, Programme Advisory Committee, NIHFW, New Delhi, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are now the leading causes of human deaths worldwide. The current paradigm of ills, pills, drills and bills does not lend well to optimal management of NCDs. Indeed, what is required is an updated skills set, with the practitioner serving as a coach to the patient. The root cause of NCDs lies in dysregulated lifestyle behaviors and habits. Lifestyle medicine is the fastest growing medical specialty in the house of medicine. It aims to systematically implement the evidence-based science of healthy lifestyle habits. The six pillars of Lifestyle medicine are healthy, wholesome nutrition, regular physical activity, avoiding use of risky substances like tobacco, restorative sleep, stress management and resiliency, and fostering positive social relations ("forks, feet, fingers, sleep, stress, love"). This perspective article describes the competencies pediatricians can harness to apply Lifestyle medicine in their daily clinical practice.

Indexed as

Life StyleNoncommunicable DiseasesPediatriciansPediatricsPhysician's RoleChildHumansHabitNon-communicable diseasesNutritionPhysical activityWell-being

Identifiers

PMID40354034
PMCPMC12310779

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