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Treadmill running in obesity and high-fat diet research

From 2021 to 2025, 160 animal research papers on obesity and high-fat diet mentioned treadmill running in their title or abstract.

That is 1.6 times the 103 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on obesity and high-fat diet that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew faster, to 2.1 times as many.

160 papers on obesity and high-fat diet from 2021 to 2025 mentioned treadmill running
21% of the papers on obesity and high-fat diet that mention any test mention treadmill running
8% of the papers that mention treadmill running are on obesity and high-fat diet
1.6 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on obesity and high-fat diet that mention treadmill running, by year, 2001 to 2026

The 2026 bar counts papers added to PubMed by November 8, 2026.

  • Papers in a full year
  • 2026 so far
Show the counts for each year
Papers by year
YearPapers
20012
20024
20031
20044
20054
20065
20073
20085
20098
20109
201114
201216
201324
201424
201525
201628
201735
201839
201940
202038
202135
202242
202325
202422
202536
2026 (part year)45

Papers on obesity and high-fat diet that mention treadmill running fell from 35 in 2021 to 22 in 2024, then rose to 36 in 2025. Part of this dip may come from PubMed's indexing rather than from fewer studies. Where PubMed has indexed a paper, we take its disease models from that indexing. Otherwise PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract, or the paper is not counted here. Papers that PubMed indexed under the subject heading Animals also fell and rose, from 200,221 in 2021 to 156,447 in 2023 and 235,479 in 2025.

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 160 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
106 papers 66%
Rat
56 papers 35%

Tests mentioned alongside treadmill running

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 160 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 142 (89%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions treadmill running in its title or abstract, and studies obesity and high-fat diet.

We tell whether a paper studies obesity and high-fat diet from its MeSH terms, the subject headings the National Library of Medicine adds when it indexes a paper. For a paper without MeSH terms, PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one disease model. A paper that mentions the test only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low.

The page on obesity and high-fat diet research names the subject headings we count as obesity and high-fat diet. Download the test list for the search terms we used for treadmill running, or the paper list for the PubMed ID of every paper behind these counts. Our main page, Behavioral tests in published research, has the full method and each source's terms of use.

More tests and disease models

Every pairing of a disease model and a test with 30 or more papers from 2021 to 2025 has a page like this one.

The page on treadmill running counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on obesity and high-fat diet research ranks the tests by their papers on obesity and high-fat diet.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Treadmill running in obesity and high-fat diet research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/obesity/treadmill

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_obesity_treadmill_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Treadmill running in obesity and high-fat diet research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/obesity/treadmill},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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