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The Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Inflammatory Markers in Adults: A Systematic Review and Pairwise and Network Meta-Analyses.

Mousa Khalafi, Aref Habibi Maleki, Shima Mojtahedi, Mahsa Ehsanifar, Sara K Rosenkranz, Michael E Symonds, Mohammad Sadegh Tarashi, Saeid Fatolahi, Maria Luz Fernandez

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Synthesis in Nutrients, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 3 of them syntheses that 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

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

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  8. Intermittent fasting enhances cancer therapyWorld journal of clinical oncology · 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

9 authors.

Mousa KhalafiDepartment of Sport Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kashan, Kashan 87317-53153, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-6465-1281
Aref Habibi MalekiPhysiology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14496-14535, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-7715-0734
Shima MojtahediDepartment of Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417935840, Iran.
Mahsa EhsanifarDepartment of Exercise Physiology and Corrective Exercises, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Urmia University, Urmia 5756151818, Iran.
Sara K RosenkranzDepartment of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3297-1640
Michael E SymondsCentre for Perinatal Research, Academic Unit of Population and Lifespan Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2QL, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9649-8963
Mohammad Sadegh TarashiDepartment of Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417935840, Iran.
Saeid FatolahiDepartment of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 111-14115, Iran.ORCID 0009-0004-8183-4986
Maria Luz FernandezDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1835-0792

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

FastingInflammationAdiponectinAdultBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinFemaleHumansInterleukin-6Intermittent FastingLeptinMaleMiddle AgedTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaAdiponectinBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinInterleukin-6LeptinTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaadipokineCRPcytokineintermittent fasting

Identifiers

PMID40805975
PMCPMC12348594

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