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ArticleAnnals of internal medicine2013

Enough is enough: Stop wasting money on vitamin and mineral supplements.

Eliseo Guallar, Saverio Stranges, Cynthia Mulrow, Lawrence J Appel, Edgar R Miller

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Article in Annals of internal medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 89 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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89citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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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

89 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Selenium for preventing cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
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  5. Vitamin D supplementation for prevention of cancer in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014
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  6. Selenium for preventing cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014
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  13. [Food supplements and fortified foods: benefits, risks and approaches to consumer protection].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2025
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29 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Eliseo Guallar
Saverio Stranges
Cynthia Mulrow
Lawrence J Appel
Edgar R Miller

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Dietary SupplementsAgingCardiovascular DiseasesCognitionFemaleHumansMaleMineralsMyocardial InfarctionNeoplasmsVitaminsMineralsVitamins

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Registered trials

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