We hypothesized that studies
with food industry sponsorship would be more likely to have favorable results and conclusions than those without industry sponsorship.
To test our hypothesis that studies
with food industry sponsorship would be more likely to have favorable conclusions than those without industry sponsorship, we conducted a meta - analysis using Review Manager 5.3 software (Cochrane Collaboration).
Not exact matches
The main finding of our assessment was that those SRs
with stated
sponsorship or conflicts of interest
with food or beverage companies were five times more likely to report a conclusion of no positive association between SSB consumption and weight gain or obesity than those reporting having no
industry sponsorship or conflicts of interest.
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Question Is
food industry sponsorship of nutrition studies associated
with outcomes that favor the sponsor?
Objective To determine whether
food industry sponsorship is associated
with effect sizes, statistical significance of results, and conclusions of nutrition studies
with findings that are favorable to the sponsor and, secondarily, to determine whether nutrition studies differ in their methodological quality depending on whether they are
industry sponsored.
The scrutiny of the funding practices of large transnational
food companies6, 7 has threatened the credibility of nutrition research and researchers.5 However, without empirical work examining the association of
industry sponsorship with the results of nutrition research, researchers, policy makers, and the public have no way of quantifying and understanding the extent of
industry influence on the data.