ArticleFood science & nutrition2026
Associations of Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Night Eating With GI Symptom-Specific Anxiety in Reproductive-Age Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
Article in Food science & nutrition, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex endocrine disorder often accompanied by metabolic disturbances, night eating patterns, and gastrointestinal-related distress. This cross-sectional study examined the associations between ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption, night eating symptoms, and gastrointestinal (GI) symptom-specific anxiety in 205 women (aged 18-50 years) with a physician-confirmed PCOS diagnosis. Participants completed validated questionnaires assessing UPF consumption (sQ-HPF), the severity of night eating symptoms (NEQ), and GI-specific anxiety (VSI), alongside self-reported anthropometric measurements. Multiple linear regression models were used to identify independent associations, adjusting for body mass index (BMI), smoking status, and socioeconomic status. While higher UPF consumption was significantly associated with increased NEQ scores and higher GI-specific anxiety in bivariate analyses, its independent influence was attenuated in final adjusted regression models. In these adjusted models, GI-specific anxiety and BMI were independently associated with NEQ scores (
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.