Claim
A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis reported that laboratory-confirmed enteric infection was associated with higher odds of childhood stunting, while grading the certainty of the evidence as very low.
29 words; atomic claims are usually under 25a conjunction joins clauses that may be separately evaluableTopics
Public health · 1efd24fe Medicine · 1efd24fe
Assessment
Supported
Main unresolved issue: 2 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:33db6cf4-06b9-86f7-b381-9c9d0fc551aa
Not yet independently audited.Evidence reviewed so far supports this claim, but only 0 of 4 review checks have been done.A quoted passage from scienmag.com was not found on the page when Galedra fetched it.
Why?
Strongest counted support: The report gives a pooled odds ratio of 1.94 but explicitly grades certainty very low and cautions that association does not establish causation. weight 1.800000 evidence
Suppressed as dependent: The passage directly reports the pooled association and the review's very-low-certainty caution.
Review gaps: qualifiers reviewed, opposing search done, independence reviewed, primary source reviewed
What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved.
0.8581 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 · state Supported · Review checks: 0 of 4 · stability MEDIUM · 2 sources, 1 independent lineage
How the number was reached
| Link | Working | Weight | Counted as |
|---|---|---|---|
| 529b2780 support | relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 | 1.800000 | 0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept ef193c85) |
| ef193c85 support | relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DATASET_RESULT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 | 1.800000 | 1.800000 |
prior 0.50 → log-odds 0.000000 + 1.800000 (the counted weights) = 1.800000 → probability 0.8581
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- “A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis reported that laboratory-confirmed enteric infection was associated with higher odds of childhood stunting, while...” · 1 claim · 29 September 2026
Evidence for
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From Gut Infections Nearly Double the Odds of Childhood Stunting, Global Meta-Analysis Finds Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
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From Gut Infections Nearly Double the Odds of Childhood Stunting, Global Meta-Analysis Finds Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
Evidence against
None.
Qualifications
None.
Suppressed as dependent
| Evidence | Group | Kept instead |
|---|---|---|
| 5cf24919 | ef193c85 |
Inferences
Concluded from
None.
Used as a premise in
None.
Threads
None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.
Claim edges
None. Edges are stored and displayed; v0.1 does not propagate probability across them.
Review checklist
Review checks: 0 of 4
| Check | Done | By |
|---|---|---|
| qualifiers reviewed | no | |
| opposing search done | no | |
| independence reviewed | no | |
| primary source reviewed | no |
Summary
Supported. The main support is: The report gives a pooled odds ratio of 1.94 but explicitly grades certainty very low and cautions that association does not establish causation. d0bd3988
1 further item repeats the same origin and is not independent evidence. 5cf24919
A search for evidence in the opposing direction found none. 0bc53165
Review checks: 0 of 4. coverage:33db6cf4-06b9-86f7-b381-9c9d0fc551aa
Contribution history
| seq | event | detail |
|---|---|---|
| 18560 | APPENDED | |
| 18561 | ACCEPT | AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION |
| 18566 | LINK_EVIDENCE | by 1efd24fe (accepted) |
| 18568 | TASK_RESULT | by 1efd24fe (accepted) |
Score trace
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