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GuidelineCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2007

2006 Canadian clinical practice guidelines on the management and prevention of obesity in adults and children [summary].

David C W Lau, James D Douketis, Katherine M Morrison, Irene M Hramiak, Arya M Sharma, Ehud Ur, Obesity Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines Expert Panel

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In one paragraph

Guideline in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 359 papers, 25 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
359citing papers in PubMed, 25 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

359 citing papers in PubMed, 25 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2025
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  3. Managing obesity in children: a clinical practice guideline.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2025
    Guideline
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  6. Obesity in South and Southeast Asia-A new consensus on care and management.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023
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  9. Obesity in adults: a clinical practice guideline.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2020 · on this map
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  10. Interventions for the management of obesity in people with bipolar disorder.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
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  11. ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in liver disease.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2019
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  18. Obesity in the Workplace: Impact, Outcomes, and Recommendations.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2018
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299 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

David C W LauDepartment of Medicine, Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre, Diabetes and Endocrine Research Group, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta. dcwlau@ucalgary.ca
James D Douketis
Katherine M Morrison
Irene M Hramiak
Arya M Sharma
Ehud Ur
Obesity Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines Expert Panel

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Disease ManagementAdultAlgorithmsAnti-Obesity AgentsBariatric SurgeryBehavior TherapyBody Mass IndexBulimia NervosaCanadaChildDepressive DisorderDietEvidence-Based MedicineExerciseHealth BehaviorHealth EducationAnti-Obesity Agents

Identifiers

PMID17420481
PMCPMC1839777

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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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 Socratic graph.