low carb diet review (studie)

[Bierwanst]

beim stöbern in den ncahf archiven (http://www.ncahf.org/digest/index.html), bin ich auf etwas gestossen:

JAMA. 2003 Apr 9;289(14):1837-50. Related Articles, Links


Comment in:
ACP J Club. 2003 Nov-Dec;139(3):70.
JAMA. 2003 Apr 9;289(14):1767-8, 1773.
JAMA. 2003 Apr 9;289(14):1853-5.

Efficacy and safety of low-carbohydrate diets: a systematic review.

Bravata DM, Sanders L, Huang J, Krumholz HM, Olkin I, Gardner CD, Bravata DM.

Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif 94305-6019, USA. bravata@healthpolicy.stanford.edu

CONTEXT: Low-carbohydrate diets have been popularized without detailed evidence of their efficacy or safety. The literature has no clear consensus as to what amount of carbohydrates per day constitutes a low-carbohydrate diet. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate changes in weight, serum lipids, fasting serum glucose, and fasting serum insulin levels, and blood pressure among adults using low-carbohydrate diets in the outpatient setting. DATA SOURCES: We performed MEDLINE and bibliographic searches for English-language studies published between January 1, 1966, and February 15, 2003, with key words such as low carbohydrate, ketogenic, and diet. STUDY SELECTION: We included articles describing adult, outpatient recipients of low-carbohydrate diets of 4 days or more in duration and 500 kcal/d or more, and which reported both carbohydrate content and total calories consumed. Literature searches identified 2609 potentially relevant articles of low-carbohydrate diets. We included 107 articles describing 94 dietary interventions reporting data for 3268 participants; 663 participants received diets of 60 g/d or less of carbohydrates--of whom only 71 received 20 g/d or less of carbohydrates. Study variables (eg, number of participants, design of dietary evaluation), participant variables (eg, age, sex, baseline weight, fasting serum glucose level), diet variables (eg, carbohydrate content, caloric content, duration) were abstracted from each study. DATA EXTRACTION: Two authors independently reviewed articles meeting inclusion criteria and abstracted data onto pretested abstraction forms. DATA SYNTHESIS: The included studies were highly heterogeneous with respect to design, carbohydrate content (range, 0-901 g/d), total caloric content (range, 525-4629 kcal/d), diet duration (range, 4-365 days), and participant characteristics (eg, baseline weight range, 57-217 kg). No study evaluated diets of 60 g/d or less of carbohydrates in participants with a mean age older than 53.1 years. Only 5 studies (nonrandomized and no comparison groups) evaluated these diets for more than 90 days. Among obese patients, weight loss was associated with longer diet duration (P =.002), restriction of calorie intake (P =.03), but not with reduced carbohydrate content (P =.90). Low-carbohydrate diets had no significant adverse effect on serum lipid, fasting serum glucose, and fasting serum insulin levels, or blood pressure. CONCLUSIONS: There is insufficient evidence to make recommendations for or against the use of low-carbohydrate diets, particularly among participants older than age 50 years, for use longer than 90 days, or for diets of 20 g/d or less of carbohydrates. Among the published studies, participant weight loss while using low-carbohydrate diets was principally associated with decreased caloric intake and increased diet duration but not with reduced carbohydrate content.

Publication Types:
Review
Review, Academic

PMID: 12684364 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


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gruß,
bierwanne

[kurt]

was zu beweisen war (quod erat demonstrandum, wie der lateiner zu sagen pflegt).

mit schönem gruß an alle mit dem denkfehler behafteten, dass nicht die energiezufuhr, sondern die carbs schuld am übergewicht wären...
kurt

[Treets]

[kurt]

... lies somerset maugham oder hemingway oder shakespeare oder so was in der richtung. mir ist bewusst, dass das wissenschaftsenglisch "simple" ist. ich habe es auch schon mal hier erklärt, warum. in publikationen muss der satzbau einfach sein, damit auch nicht-native speakers keine verständnisprobleme haben. und was das vokabular betrifft - wozu hat man ein dictionary?

lg, kurt