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Trial reportNutrients2019

Metabolic Trajectories Following Contrasting Prudent and Western Diets from Food Provisions: Identifying Robust Biomarkers of Short-Term Changes in Habitual Diet.

Nadine Wellington, Meera Shanmuganathan, Russell J de Souza, Michael A Zulyniak, Sandi Azab, Jonathon Bloomfield, Alicia Mell, Ritchie Ly, Dipika Desai, Sonia S Anand and 1 more

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Nutrients, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Nadine WellingtonDepartment of Chemical and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada. wellinnl@mcmaster.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-3461-4812
Meera ShanmuganathanDepartment of Chemical and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada. shanmm2@mcmaster.ca.
Russell J de SouzaDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada. desouzrj@mcmaster.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-8945-513X
Michael A ZulyniakDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada. m.a.zulyniak@leeds.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-4944-5521
Sandi AzabDepartment of Chemical and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada. azabs@mcmaster.ca.
Jonathon BloomfieldDepartment of Chemical and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada. bloomfija@gmail.com.
Alicia MellDepartment of Chemical and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada. alicia@imell.ca.
Ritchie LyDepartment of Chemical and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada. lyr2@mcmaster.ca.
Dipika DesaiDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada. Dipika.Desai@phri.ca.
Sonia S AnandDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada. anands@mcmaster.ca.
Philip Britz-McKibbinDepartment of Chemical and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada. britz@mcmaster.ca.
McMaster University · CAPopulation Health Research Institute · CAUniversity of Leeds · GB

Funding

Genome Canada xxNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada xx
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A large body of evidence has linked unhealthy eating patterns with an alarming increase in obesity and chronic disease worldwide. However, existing methods of assessing dietary intake in nutritional epidemiology rely on food frequency questionnaires or dietary records that are prone to bias and selective reporting. Herein, metabolic phenotyping was performed on 42 healthy participants from the Diet and Gene Intervention (DIGEST) pilot study, a parallel two-arm randomized clinical trial that provided complete diets to all participants. Matching single-spot urine and fasting plasma specimens were collected at baseline, and then following two weeks of either a Prudent or Western diet with a weight-maintaining menu plan designed by a dietician. Targeted and nontargeted metabolite profiling was conducted using three complementary analytical platforms, where 80 plasma metabolites and 84 creatinine-normalized urinary metabolites were reliably measured (CV < 30%) in the majority of participants (>75%) after implementing a rigorous data workflow for metabolite authentication with stringent quality control. We classified a panel of metabolites with distinctive trajectories following two weeks of food provisions when using complementary univariate and multivariate statistical models. Unknown metabolites associated with contrasting dietary patterns were identified with high-resolution MS/MS, as well as co-elution after spiking with authentic standards if available. Overall, 3-methylhistidine and proline betaine concentrations increased in both plasma and urine samples after participants were assigned a Prudent diet (

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Diet, HealthyDiet, WesternFeeding BehaviorBiomarkersCanadaCreatinineDietDiet RecordsElectrolytesFastingFatty AcidsFoodHumansMetabolomeMetabolomicsPilot ProjectsBiomarkersCreatinineElectrolytesFatty Acidsdiet recordsfood provisionsmass spectrometrymetabolite profilingmetabolomicsnutritional epidemiologyPrudent dietWestern diet

Identifiers

PMID31600930
PMCPMC6835357
OpenAlexW2968529790

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