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PLoS MEDICINE Relationship between Funding Source and Conclusion among Nutrition-Related Scientific Articles 1¤ 1 2 3,4 1* Lenard I. Lesser , Cara B. Ebbeling , Merrill Goozner , David Wypij , David S. Ludwig 1 Department of Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 The Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D. C., United States of America, 3 Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 Clinical Research Program, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America Funding: This study was supported A B S T R A C T by a grant from the Charles H. Hood Foundation (Boston, Massachusetts, United States) and discretionary funds from the Department of Background Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston (Massachusetts, United States) to Industrial support of biomedical research may bias scientific conclusions, as demonstrated by DSL. LIL was supported by a medical recent analyses of pharmaceutical studies. However, this issue has not been systematically student research fellowship from the examined in the area of nutrition research. The purpose of this study is to characterize financial University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (Rochester, sponsorship of scientific articles addressing the health effects of three commonly consumed New York, United States). The beverages, and to determine how sponsorship affects published conclusions. funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or pre