Evidence mapPaperPMID 37537402Full record

ReviewReviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders2023

Phenotyping the obesities: reality or utopia?

Piero Portincasa, Gema Frühbeck

Open access · hybridAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Article
  4. EndoBridge 2024: pearls and highlights.Hormones (Athens, Greece) · 2025
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. The evolution of the understanding of obesity over the last 100 years.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Deep phenotyping obesity using EHR data: Promise, Challenges, and Future Directions.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024
    Article
  11. Review
  12. Article
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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Piero PortincasaDepartment of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePre-J), Clinica Medica "A. Murri", University of Bari Medical School, 70124, Bari, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5359-1471
Gema FrühbeckDepartment of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 31008, Pamplona, Spain. gfruhbeck@unav.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8305-7154
Navarre Institute of Health Research · ESUniversity of Bari Aldo Moro · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this thematic issue on phenotyping the obesities, prominent international experts offer an insightful and comprehensive collection of articles covering the current knowledge in the field. In order to actually capture all the polyhedral determinants of the diverse types of obesity, the granularity of the phenotypic information acquired must be expanded in the context of a personalized approach. Whilst the use of precision medicine has been successfully implemented in areas like cancer and other diseases, health care providers are more reluctant to embrace detailed phenotyping to guide diagnosis, treatment and prevention in obesity. Given its multiple complex layers, phenotyping necessarily needs to go beyond the multi-omics approach and incorporate all the diverse spheres that conform the reality of people living with obesity. Potential barriers, difficulties, roadblocks and opportunities together with their interaction in a syndemic context are analyzed. Plausible lacunae are also highlighted in addition to pointing to the need of redefining new conceptual frameworks. Therefore, this extraordinary collection of state-ofthe-art reviews provides useful information to both experienced clinicians and trainees as well as academics to steer clinical practice and research in the management of people living with obesity irrespective of practice setting or career stage.

Indexed as

ObesityUtopiasHumansClusteringComorbiditiesHeterogeneityObesityPatient stratificationPhenotypes

Identifiers

PMID37537402
PMCPMC10492876
OpenAlexW4385564405

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.