Grading nutrition evidence: where to go from here?

Deirdre K Tobias^{1

2}, Clemens Wittenbecher^{2

3}, Frank B Hu^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany.
⁴ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Editorial

Deirdre K Tobias et al. Am J Clin Nutr. 2021.

. 2021 Jun 1;113(6):1385-1387.

doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqab124.

Deirdre K Tobias^{1

2}, Clemens Wittenbecher^{2

3}, Frank B Hu^{2

4}

¹ Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany.
⁴ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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Characteristics and quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational nutritional epidemiology: a cross-sectional study.
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