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Shared materials"Shaking the ladder" reveals how analytic choices can influence associations in nutrition epidemiology: beef intake and coronary heart disease as a case study
An Analysis of Transparency, Rigor, Reproducibility, and Verifiability of Randomized Controlled Trials of Beef Consumption and Health Outcomes
An assessment of data and code sharing in research funded by the Nathan Shock Centers, 2017-2022: A meta-research study
An automated approach to improve clinical trial registration and to identify outcome changes on ClinicalTrials.gov
Assessments of Credibility in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Authoring and Management of Transparent Research Integrity Assessments of Randomised Clinical Trial Publications Using LLM-assisted Tools and Provenance Knowledge Graphs
Automated assessment of the trustworthiness of biomedical publications: a protocol for a scoping review
Claims of sex-dependent effects in the behavioral and brain sciences are infrequently supported by valid statistical comparisons
Evaluating the reproducibility and verifiability of nutrition research: a case study of studies assessing the relationship between potatoes and colorectal cancer
Guidance for defining outcomes in clinical trials
Improving statistical rigor in animal aging research by addressing clustering and nesting effects: Illustration with the National Institute on Aging's Intervention Testing Program data
Lumping vs. Splitting Nutrients, Foods and Diet Patterns in Nutrition Research: Science Dialogue Mapping of Origins, Uses and Knowledge Gaps
Mislabeling and inappropriate analysis render interpretations from "The effect of the participatory heat education and awareness tools (HEAT) intervention on agricultural worker physiological heat strain: results from a parallel, comparison, group randomized study" unreliable
Nourish the mind: protocol for an umbrella review on nutrients and bioactive food components supporting brain health across the lifespan
Reporting Completeness of Systematic Reviews of Nutrition or Diet-Related Randomised Controlled Trials: A Meta-Research on Adherence to PRISMA Items
Reproducibility Analysis of Wood et al., 2023
SPIRIT-CONSORT-ELM: Element-Level Annotated Dataset and Large Language Model Approach for Assessing Randomized Controlled Trial Reporting
Statistical Methods in Aging Research: Improving Current Practices and Embracing Emerging Approaches
Use as directed? A comparison of software tools intended to check rigor and transparency of published work
A brief guide to statistical analysis of grouped data in preclinical research
A Multivariate Bernoulli-Based Sampling Method for Multi-Label Data with Application to Meta-Research
Assessing the feasibility and impact of clinical trial trustworthiness checks via an application to Cochrane Reviews: Stage 2 of the INSPECT-SR project
CONSORT-nut
Describing the landscape of nutrition- and diet-related randomized controlled trials: metaresearch study of protocols published between 2012 and 2022
INSPECT-SR: a tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials
No compelling evidence of sex differences in brain maturation during COVID-19 lockdowns when the sexes are compared statistically
SPIRIT-CONSORT-TM: a corpus for assessing transparency of clinical trial protocol and results publications
Adjusting for covariates representing potential confounders, mediators, or competing predictors in the presence of measurement error: Dispelling a potential misapprehension and insights for optimal study design with nutritional epidemiology examples
Failure to account for clustering and nesting renders results unreliable in “Body Mass Index and Gut Microbiome: A Cluster-Randomized, Controlled, Pilot Feasibility Study." [Letter to the Editor]
Fetal sex effects on maternal health can now be tested via randomization: A first-in-class illustration in cows on glucoregulatory outcomes
Individually randomized trial mislabeled as a cluster-randomized trial. Comment on: "Effectiveness of wearable technology to optimize youth soccer players' off-training behaviour and training responses: a cluster-randomized trial"
Misstatements, misperceptions, and mistakes in controlling for covariates in observational research
Publication of Results of Registered Trials With Published Study Protocols, 2011-2022
Reporting completeness of nutrition and diet-related randomised controlled trials protocols
Text classification models for assessing the completeness of randomized controlled trial publications based on CONSORT reporting guidelines
The efficacy of sleep lifestyle interventions for the management of overweight or obesity in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis
The Third Annual Symposium of the Midwest Aging Consortium
Tools to Assess Randomized Trials and Systematic Reviews
Aim 5 - Ghrelin agonist longevity outcome in male mice
Completeness of Reporting in Diet- and Nutrition-Related Randomized Controlled Trials and Systematic Reviews With Meta-Analysis: Protocol for 2 Independent Meta-Research Studies
Corrected analysis of "the effects of bright light treatment on affective symptoms in people with dementia: a 24-week cluster randomized controlled trial" that accounts for clustering and nesting verifies conclusions
Determination of sex differences requires formal test for differences: Comment on "lipoprotein-subclass particle numbers in children with abdominal obesity"
Ignoring Clustering and Nesting Effects Are Invalid Analysis Choices in a Trial with Clustered Data in Trials Testing Causal Effects. Re: "Impact of a Montessori-Based Nutrition Program on Children's Knowledge and Eating Behaviors"
Inappropriate Analysis of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Due to Not Accounting for Nesting and Clustering: Comment on "A Home-Based Dyadic Music-with-Movement Intervention for People with Dementia and Caregivers: A Hybrid Type 2 Cluster-Randomized Effectiveness-Implementation Design" [Letter]
Incorrectly Labeled Randomized Study and Inappropriate Within-Group Comparisons in: "Effectiveness of Home Gardening in Improving Food Security and Health in Chacraseca, Nicaragua: A Pilot Study"
Only one cluster per condition is an invalid design for a cluster randomized trial and should be re-labeled a quasi-experimental study. Response to: "Effect of behavioral activation on time and frequency domain heart rate variability in older adults with subthreshold depression: a cluster randomized controlled trial in Thailand"
Reanalysis Accounting for Clustering and Nesting Overturns Conclusions in: "Watching TV Cooking Programs: Effects on Actual Food Intake Among Children"
Toward more rigorous and informative nutritional epidemiology: The rational space between dismissal and defense of the status quo
Accounting for the clustering and nesting effects verifies most conclusions. Corrected analysis of: "Randomized nutrient bar supplementation improves exercise-associated changes in plasma metabolome in adolescents and adult family members at cardiometabolic risk"
Acute High Dietary Phosphorus Following Low-Phosphorus Diet Acclimation Does Not Enhance Intestinal Fractional Phosphorus Absorption in Nephrectomized Male Rats
Correcting the description of the design to quasi-experimental instead of cluster-randomized: Corrigendum to “Effect of school-based interventions on body composition of grade-4 children from lower socioeconomic communities in Gqeberha, South Africa”
Errors in Analyses and Undisclosed Methods Render Meta-Analysis Irreproducible: A Second Comment on "Effects of Flaxseed Interventions on Circulating Inflammatory Biomarkers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials"
From Model Organisms to Humans, the Opportunity for More Rigor in Methodologic and Statistical Analysis, Design, and Interpretation of Aging and Senescence Research
Is the future of peer review automated?
Letter to the editor regarding the article entitled “School physical education-based reinforced program through moderate-to-vigorous physical activity improves and maintains school children's cardiorespiratory fitness: A cluster-randomized controlled trial”
Mixed Random and Nonrandom Allocation, and Group Randomization Have Been Mislabeled and Misanalysed, Necessitating Reanalysis. Comment on Conner et al. KiwiC for Vitality: Results of a Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial Testing the Effects of Kiwifruit or Vitamin C Tablets on Vitality in Adults with Low Vitamin C Levels. Nutrients 2020, 12, 2898
Protocol for a meta-research study of protocols for diet or nutrition-related trials published in indexed journals: general aspects of study design, rationale and reporting limitations
Randomisation can do many things - but it cannot "fail"
Randomization, design and analysis for interdependency in aging research: no person or mouse is an island
Re-Analysis and Additional Information Needed to Inform Conclusions. Comment on Halenova et al. Deuterium-Depleted Water as Adjuvant Therapeutic Agent for Treatment of Diet-Induced Obesity in Rats. Molecules 2020, 25, 23
Re-analysis of data from a cluster RCT entitled "health literacy and exercise-focused interventions on clinical measurements in Chinese diabetes patients"
Traffic Light Diets for Childhood Obesity: Disambiguation of Terms and Critical Review of Application, Food Categorization, and Strength of Evidence
Double-counting of effect sizes and inappropriate exclusion of studies in "The influence of vitamin D supplementation on IGF-1 levels in humans: A systematic review and meta-analysis"
Errors in the implementation, analysis, and reporting of randomization within obesity and nutrition research: a guide to their avoidance
Intestinal phosphorus absorption: recent findings in translational and clinical research
Peer Review Report For: The impact of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute data: analyzing published articles that used BioLINCC open access data [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]
Science dialogue mapping of knowledge and knowledge gaps related to the effects of dairy intake on human cardiovascular health and disease
Sex difference analyses under scrutiny
Spin in the abstracts of systematic reviews and meta-analyses: How big is the problem in obesity?
Adverse Effects of Autoclaved Diets on the Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease and Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral Bone Disorder in Rats
Apparent duplication of results in multiple publications and incorrect statistical analysis by Abdelbasset et al. requires attention to clarify the effect of exercise in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Comparisons of Within-Group Instead of Between-Group Affect the Conclusions. Comment on: "Changes in Weight and Substrate Oxidation in Overweight Adults Following Isomaltulose Intake during a 12-Week Weight Loss Intervention: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial". Nutrients 2019, 11(10), 2367
Contrary to the Conclusions Stated in the Paper, Only Dry Fat-Free Mass Was Different between Groups upon Reanalysis. Comment on: "Intermittent Energy Restriction Attenuates the Loss of Fat-Free Mass in Resistance Trained Individuals. A Randomized Controlled Trial"
Errors or Irreproducibility in Effect Size Calculations and Incomplete Reporting of Results in "Systematic Review of the Effects of Blueberry on Cognitive Performance as We Age"
How transparent is the reporting and conduct of murine genetic model obesity research: a systematic literature survey
Improving open and rigorous science: ten key future research opportunities related to rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in scientific research
Incorrect design and analysis render conclusion unsubstantiated: comment on "A digital movement in the world of inactive children: favourable outcomes of playing active video games in a pilot randomized trial"
Kidney Disease Progression Does Not Decrease Intestinal Phosphorus Absorption in a Rat Model of Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral Bone Disorder
Overstated Claims of Efficacy and Safety. Comment On: "Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections". Nutrients 2020, 12, 1181
Questions on 'Intervention effects of a kindergarten-based health promotion programme on obesity related behavioural outcomes and BMI percentiles'
Toward fulfilling the aspirational goal of science as self-correcting: A call for editorial courage and diligence for error correction
Within-group comparisons led to unsubstantiated conclusions in "Low-phytate wholegrain bread instead of high-phytate wholegrain bread in a total diet context did not improve iron status of healthy Swedish females: a 12-week, randomized, parallel-design intervention Study"
Effect of ovariectomy on the progression of chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder (CKD-MBD) in female Cy/+ rats
Spin in the abstract in "Impact of motivational interviewing on outcomes of an adolescent obesity treatment: Results from the MI Values randomized controlled pilot trial"
The Implementation of Randomization Requires Corrected Analyses. Comment on “Comprehensive Nutritional and Dietary Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder—A Randomized, Controlled 12-Month Trial, Nutrients Nutrients 2018, 10, 369”
The Physiological Relevance of the Adaptive Capacity of Intestinal Phosphorus Absorption
Effect of dietary phosphorus intake and age on intestinal phosphorus absorption efficiency and phosphorus balance in male rats
Phosphorus Balance in Adolescent Girls and the Effect of Supplemental Dietary Calcium
Diet and Diabetic Kidney Disease: Plant Versus Animal Protein
Effects of Excessive Dietary Phosphorus Intake on Bone Health
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