"Prediction is very hard, especially about the future": new biomarkers for type 2 diabetes?

What it found

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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.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Type 2 Diabetes Prediction Model in China: A Five-Year Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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2. Recent Developments in Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Screening of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Current diabetes reports · 2022
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3. Which Role Plays 2-Hydroxybutyric Acid on Insulin Resistance?Metabolites · 2021
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4. Metabolomics Reveals Effect of Zishen Jiangtang Pill, a Chinese Herbal Product on High-Fat Diet-Induced Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Mice.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019
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5. Hyperpolarized [(13)C]ketobutyrate, a molecular analog of pyruvate with modified specificity for LDH isoforms.Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2016
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6. Conserved Metabolic Changes in Nondiabetic and Type 2 Diabetic Bariatric Surgery Patients: Global Metabolomic Pilot Study.Journal of diabetes research · 2016
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7. Low levels of C-peptide have clinical significance for established Type 1 diabetes.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2015
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8. Sex differences in biomarkers associated with insulin resistance in obese adolescents: metabolomic profiling and principal components analysis.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2014
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9. Metabolic heritability at birth: implications for chronic disease research.Human genetics · 2014
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Corrections and comments

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  Early metabolic markers of the development of dysglycemia and type 2 diabetes and their physiological significance.2013

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