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ArticleMuscles, ligaments and tendons journal2014

Metabolic diseases and tendinopathies: the missing link.

Francesco Oliva, Silvia Misiti, Nicola Maffulli

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Article in Muscles, ligaments and tendons journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Metabolic Risk Factors Relate to Worse Tendon Health in Individuals With Achilles Tendinopathy.Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society · 2025
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  5. Some patients (and some of us) respond better to some biological therapies: the as yet unsolved conundrum.Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology : official journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology · 2018
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  7. The Role of Detraining in Tendon Mechanobiology.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2016
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  9. Clinical evidence of traditionalMuscles, ligaments and tendons journal
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Francesco OlivaDepartment of Orthopaedic and Traumatology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", School of Medicine, Rome, Italy.
Silvia MisitiFondazione IBSA for scientific research, Pambio, Switzerland.
Nicola MaffulliDepartment of Musculoskeletal Disorders, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, and Queen Mary University of London, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, Mile End Hospital, London, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID25489541
PMCPMC4241414

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