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ArticleBMC medicine2026

Response to: Matters Arising in relation to "Evaluating agreement between individual nutrition randomised controlled trials and cohort studies - a meta-epidemiological study".

Julia Stadelmaier, Gina Bantle, Lea Gorenflo, Eva Kiesswetter, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Lukas Schwingshackl

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Article in BMC medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

6 authors.

Julia StadelmaierInstitute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg / Medical Faculty - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. julia.stadelmaier@uniklinik-freiburg.de.
Gina BantleInstitute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg / Medical Faculty - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Lea GorenfloInstitute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg / Medical Faculty - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Eva KiesswetterInstitute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg / Medical Faculty - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Adriani NikolakopoulouInstitute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Medical Faculty and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Lukas SchwingshacklInstitute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg / Medical Faculty - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We respond to the Matters Arising article by Calkins et al. commenting on our meta-epidemiological study "Evaluating agreement between individual nutrition randomised controlled trials and cohort studies". We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the points raised and to clarify the methods and interpretation of our work.

Indexed as

Meta-Analysis as TopicRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicCohort StudiesEpidemiologic StudiesHumansCohort studiesMeta-epidemiological studyNutritionRandomised controlled trials

Identifiers

PMID41957603
PMCPMC13063864

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