Doctors, policymakers and everyday people may make decisions or give advice based on the results of published nutrition studies. But a new analysis shows researchers sometimes overstate the results of those reports.
Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham looked at papers published about nutrition and obesity in leading medical and public health journals. They tracked how often authors overreached in the summary of their findings.
"We found that about one of 11 studies have some kind of issue that we identified that was degrading the fidelity of research reporting," Dr. Nir Menachemi said.
"In the article we call it an overreaching statement. That's probably the most fair way to characterize these infractions," Menachemi, who led the analysis, told Reuters Health.
His team's findings were published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_142111.html
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