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ReviewSaudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association

Helicobacter pylori infection and its relationship to metabolic syndrome: is it a myth or fact?

Waleed I Albaker

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Review in Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Trial
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  4. Metabolic syndrome and associated factors amongFrontiers in endocrinology · 2024
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  7. Relationship BetweenInternational journal of general medicine · 2021
    Review
  8. Association ofExperimental and therapeutic medicine · 2019
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  10. Association of obesity withWorld journal of gastroenterology · 2017
    Observational
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  16. Depression and anxiety disorders among gastroenterologic outpatients.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association
    Article
  17. Helicobacter pylori and insulin resistance association: not just a myth, not yet a fact.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Waleed I AlbakerDepartment of Internal Medicine, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. dr_waleed99@hotmail.com
King Fahd Hospital of the University · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolic syndrome is one of the most prevalent global health problems that predisposes to Type 2 diabetes. It is strongly linked to insulin resistance, which results in hyperglycemia. Over the past few years, lot of studies have been carried out on Helicobacter pylori infection and found a possible causal relationship through releasing some of the interleukins factors, which result in endothelial dysfunction. However, some studies attributed that due to coincidence were not able to establish any causal relationship. In this review, the literature has been reviewed to check this possible association.

Indexed as

Helicobacter pyloriCausalityCholesterol, HDLCholesterol, LDLComorbidityDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Endothelium, VascularGhrelinHelicobacter InfectionsHumansLeptinMetabolic SyndromeObesityCholesterol, HDLCholesterol, LDLGhrelinLeptin

Identifiers

PMID21546717
PMCPMC3122084
OpenAlexW1969559967

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