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ArticleLancet (London, England)2025

Forecasting the global obesity epidemic through 2050.

Thorkild I A Sørensen

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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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

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Host-Microbiota Interactions in Obesity: Immune Metabolic Dysregulation.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026
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  5. Seeing Beyond GLP-1: A Systems View of Sustainable Obesity Care.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026
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  9. Burden of MASLD and liver fibrosis: evidence from Phenome India cohort.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2026
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  14. Clinical Characteristics of Plantar Warts and Association With BMI: A Retrospective Case Series Study.Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Thorkild I A SørensenDepartment of Public Health and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Centre for Childhood Health, DK2300 Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: tias@sund.ku.dk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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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.