Response to Igor Eckert: Sometimes, the absence of evidence is evidence of its absence

Affiliations

¹ Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre and National Institute for Health Research Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
² Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre and National Institute for Health Research Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; MRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. Electronic address: Dileep.Lobo@nottingham.ac.uk.

Comment

Alfred Adiamah et al. Clin Nutr. 2022 Jan.

. 2022 Jan;41(1):261-262.

doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.11.022. Epub 2021 Nov 25.

¹ Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre and National Institute for Health Research Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
² Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre and National Institute for Health Research Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; MRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. Electronic address: Dileep.Lobo@nottingham.ac.uk.

No abstract available

Keywords: Arginine; Immune modulating nutrition; Long-term survival; Oesophagogastric cancer; Pancreaticobiliary cancer.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest None of the authors has a conflict of interest to declare.

Postoperative arginine-enriched immune modulating nutrition: Long-term survival results from a randomised clinical trial in patients with oesophagogastric and pancreaticobiliary cancer.
Adiamah A, Rollins KE, Kapeleris A, Welch NT, Iftikhar SY, Allison SP, Lobo DN. Adiamah A, et al. Clin Nutr. 2021 Nov;40(11):5482-5485. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.09.040. Epub 2021 Oct 1. Clin Nutr. 2021. PMID: 34656029 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.
Inaccurate conclusions due to absence of evidence fallacy on Adiamah et al.
Eckert I. Eckert I. Clin Nutr. 2022 Jan;41(1):260. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.11.021. Epub 2021 Nov 25. Clin Nutr. 2022. PMID: 34865909 No abstract available.