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ArticleJAMA2018

Fitness or Fatness: Which Is More Important?

Ann Blair Kennedy, Carl J Lavie, Steven N Blair

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Article in JAMA, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ann Blair KennedyDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Division of Behavioral, Social, and Population Health, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville.
Carl J LavieDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases, Ochsner Clinical School, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Steven N BlairDepartments of Exercise Science and Epidemiology/Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Heath, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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MortalityObesityPhysical FitnessAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBody Mass IndexCoronary DiseaseFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRisk FactorsYoung Adult

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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.