Most don't describe participants accurately, affecting results, study finds
FRIDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDayNews) -- Scientific studies that claim to support the effectiveness of weight-loss plans often leave out key facts that can influence the results, claims a new analysis of hundreds of diet studies. Many of the reports omit key mitigating details about the dieters themselves -- things such as medication use, health status, ethnicity and even age. "We had not expected such poor reporting quality," said study author Cheryl Gibson, a research associate professor of medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
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