Perspective: NutriGrade: A Scoring System to Assess and Judge the Meta-Evidence of Randomized Controlled Trials and Cohort Studies in Nutrition Research.

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Published in Adv Nutr on November 15, 2016

Authors

Lukas Schwingshackl1, Sven Knüppel2, Carolina Schwedhelm2, Georg Hoffmann3, Benjamin Missbach3, Marta Stelmach-Mardas2,4, Stefan Dietrich2, Fabian Eichelmann5,2, Evangelos Kontopantelis6, Khalid Iqbal2, Krasimira Aleksandrova5,2, Stefan Lorkowski7,8, Michael F Leitzmann9, Anja Kroke10, Heiner Boeing2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany; lukas.schwingshackl@dife.de.
2: Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany.
3: Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
4: Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
5: Nutrition, Immunity, and Metabolism Start-Up Lab.
6: Centre for Primary Care, Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
7: Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
8: Competence Cluster of Nutrition and Cardiovascular Health, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany.
9: Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; and.
10: Department of Nutritional, Food, and Consumer Sciences, University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany.

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