Top five medical journal articles of 2018

December 29 2018 by , medical review by in News, Science & health

What review and viewpoint pieces are prominent medical journals choosing to publish these days? In 2018, we saw many low carb-friendly articles get ink.

Here are our five favorite perspectives:

Jennifer Abbasi in JAMA:
Interest in the ketogenic diet grows for weight loss and type 2 diabetes
Dr. David Ludwig and Cara B. Ebbeling in JAMA Internal Medicine:
The carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity — Beyond “calories in, calories out”
(Top-viewed article of the year in JAMA Internal Medicine.)
Dr. John Ioannadis in JAMA:
The challenge of reforming nutritional epidemiologic research
Gary Taubes in BMJ:
What if sugar is worse than just empty calories?
Dr. Fiona Godlee in BMJ
Pills are not the answer to unhealthy lifestyles

An honorable mention goes to these two consensus pieces that came out of the Swiss Re conference this summer. They are longer but worth reading:

Nita G Forouhi, et. al. in BMJ:
Dietary and nutritional approaches for prevention and management of type 2 diabetes
Dr. David Ludwig, et. al. in BMJ:
Dietary carbohydrates: role of quality and quantity in chronic disease

What lies ahead for 2019? More interest in alternative paradigms among doctors and scientists as we search for options in the fight against chronic disease.

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Janet
December 29 2018 1
It would be nice to be able to read these but they are hidden behind pay walls. All the ones I was interested in anyway.

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Julie
December 29 2018 1
I believe if you are able to find an email address for the author they will send it to you for free. Authors are usually happy to share their work, it’s the journal which keeps the fee to read.
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Sandra Hunsberger
December 29 2018 1
Disappointing. Unable to access....bec of fees! Wanting to spread info to fam/friends re lchf asap....still so many uninformed.

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Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor
December 30 2018
Unfortunately we have no control over the fees that they charge. If you go to Virta Health's website, they do an excellent job of summing up the keto research that's been done.
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Janice
January 1 2019
Turn to a library. Big hospitals, teaching hospitals, and medical schools have medical libraries and databases. Call to see if you can visit and print articles. Public libraries might have well-known journals, even online for access from home. Sorry this answer is mostly for city dwellers.
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Arlene
January 2 2019
Just want to second what Janice said. Libraries, particularly academic (college) libraries, may subscribe to databases that give you access to some of these articles. I teach at a community college, and our database gives me access to the BMJ articles (but not the JAMA articles). Try the PubMed and/or Medline databases. For the most part, any member of the public can walk into a college library and use the computers to access the databases (you won't be able to do it from home unless you are a teacher or student with an id number). Some colleges or universities may require an id to gain physical access to the library--but mine doesn't.

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