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ReviewThe Journal of clinical investigation2021

Dietary interventions for obesity: clinical and mechanistic findings.

Ariana M Chao, Kerry M Quigley, Thomas A Wadden

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Review in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07728877 (A Culture-tailored Plant-based Dietary Intervention in Taiwan), which is not on this map. Cited by 143 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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143citing papers in PubMed, 12 pooled it
18.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT07728877 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

A Culture-tailored Plant-based Dietary Intervention in Taiwan: A Pilot Randomized Crossover Feasibility Trial With Preliminary Inflammatory and Metabolic Outcomes

TypeinterventionalSponsorTzu Chi UniversityRan2023 to 2023Enrolled30ConditionsHealthy, Dietary HabitsArmsPlant-Based Diet, General Diet
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

143 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 232 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ariana M ChaoUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Kerry M QuigleyDepartment of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Thomas A WaddenDepartment of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Neural response to food stimuli: fMRI changes following cognitive behavioral therapy for binge eating disorderK23NR017209 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI CHAO, ARIANA MARIE · 2018 to 2020
$520k
NINR NIH HHS K23 NR017209
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dietary modification is central to obesity treatment. Weight loss diets are available that include various permutations of energy restriction, macronutrients, foods, and dietary intake patterns. Caloric restriction is the common pathway for weight reduction, but different diets may induce weight loss by varied additional mechanisms, including by facilitating dietary adherence. This narrative Review of meta-analyses and select clinical trials found that lower-calorie diets, compared with higher-calorie regimens, reliably induced larger short-term (<6 months) weight losses, with deterioration of this benefit over the long term (>12 months). Few significant long-term differences in weight loss were observed for diets of varying macronutrient composition, although some regimens were found to have short-term advantages (e.g., low carbohydrate versus low fat). Progress in improving dietary adherence, which is critical to both short- and long-term weight loss, could result from greater efforts to identify behavioral and metabolic phenotypes among dieters.

Indexed as

Diet, Fat-RestrictedDiet, ReducingEnergy IntakeObesityWeight LossHumans

Identifiers

PMID33393504
PMCPMC7773341
OpenAlexW3120252203

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