The misuse of meta-analysis in nutrition research

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 318, Issue 15, 2017, Pages 1435-1436

  Barnard, Neal D ^a   Willet, Walter C ^b   Ding, Eric L ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; FATTY ACID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIETARY INTAKE; FAT INTAKE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NOTE; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BOVINE; CORONARY DISEASE; EATING; MEAT; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CORONARY DISEASE; EATING; FATTY ACIDS; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MEAT; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85031914367     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.12083     Document Type: Note

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