“…Upon evaluation of their titles, 38 were considered of no relevance (for complete search results see Supplementary Table S1 ). The remaining 47 articles were evaluated in more detail, including a letter pointing to the evidence for choline deficiency in TPN [ 28 ], followed by 9 pre-clinical in vivo studies (1985–2020) [ 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 ], 20 human trials (12 observational (1985–2021) [ 18 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 ] and 7 interventional studies (1990–2011) [ 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 ] including one editorial [ 51 ] on ref. [ 50 ]), 14 reviews (1986–2019) [ 15 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 ] plus 1 in 2024 [ 27 ] and 3 guidelines (2012–2022) [ 26 , 69 , …”