Reply to JJ Meerpohl et al

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany.
² Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
³ Centre for Primary Care, Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
⁴ Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
⁶ Department of Nutritional, Food and Consumer Sciences, University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany.

Comment

Lukas Schwingshackl et al. Adv Nutr. 2017.

. 2017 Sep 15;8(5):790-791.

doi: 10.3945/an.117.016469. Print 2017 Sep.

¹ Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany.
² Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
³ Centre for Primary Care, Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
⁴ Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
⁶ Department of Nutritional, Food and Consumer Sciences, University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany.

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Conflict of interest statement

Author disclosures: LS, SK, CS, GH, BM, MS-M, SD, FE, EK, KI, KA, SL, MFL, AK, and HB, no conflicts of interest.

Perspective: NutriGrade: A Scoring System to Assess and Judge the Meta-Evidence of Randomized Controlled Trials and Cohort Studies in Nutrition Research.
Schwingshackl L, Knüppel S, Schwedhelm C, Hoffmann G, Missbach B, Stelmach-Mardas M, Dietrich S, Eichelmann F, Kontopantelis E, Iqbal K, Aleksandrova K, Lorkowski S, Leitzmann MF, Kroke A, Boeing H. Schwingshackl L, et al. Adv Nutr. 2016 Nov 15;7(6):994-1004. doi: 10.3945/an.116.013052. Print 2016 Nov. Adv Nutr. 2016. PMID: 28140319 Free PMC article.
Comment on "Perspective: NutriGrade: A Scoring System to Assess and Judge the Meta-Evidence of Randomized Controlled Trials and Cohort Studies in Nutrition Research".
Meerpohl JJ, Naude CE, Garner P, Mustafa RA, Schünemann HJ. Meerpohl JJ, et al. Adv Nutr. 2017 Sep 15;8(5):789-790. doi: 10.3945/an.117.016188. Print 2017 Sep. Adv Nutr. 2017. PMID: 28916579 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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