Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26154592›Full record

ReviewAntioxidants & redox signaling2015

Antioxidants in Translational Medicine.

Harald H H W Schmidt, Roland Stocker, Claudia Vollbracht, Gøran Paulsen, Dennis Riley, Andreas Daiber, Antonio Cuadrado

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Review in Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 129 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
129citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
21.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

129 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 226 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Beyond Glucose: The Dual Assault of Oxidative and ER Stress in Diabetic Disorders.High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2023
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69 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 7 institutions in 6 countries.

Harald H H W Schmidt1 Department of Pharmacology, CARIM, FHML, MIAS, Maastricht University , Maastricht, The Netherlands .
Roland Stocker2 Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute , Sydney, Australia .
Claudia Vollbracht4 Hochschule Fresenius, University of Applied Sciences , Idstein, Germany .
Gøran Paulsen5 Norwegian School of Sport Sciences , Oslo, Norway .
Dennis Riley6 Galera Therapeutics Inc., Malvern, Pennsylvania.
Andreas Daiber7 Labor für Molekulare Kardiologie, II. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität , Mainz, Germany .
Antonio Cuadrado8 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED) , ISCIII, Madrid, Spain .
Ark Therapeutic (United States) · USHochschule Fresenius · DEInstituto de Salud Carlos III · ESJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DEMaastricht University · NLNorwegian School of Sport Sciences · NOVictor Chang Cardiac Research Institute · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

significanceIt is generally accepted that reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging molecules or antioxidants exert health-promoting effects and thus their consumption as food additives and nutraceuticals has been greatly encouraged. Antioxidants may be beneficial in situations of subclinical deficiency and increased demand or acutely upon high-dose infusion. However, to date, there is little clinical evidence for the long-term benefit of most antioxidants. Alarmingly, recent evidence points even to health risks, in particular for supplements of lipophilic antioxidants. RECENT ADVANCES: The biological impact of ROS depends not only on their quantities but also on their chemical nature, (sub)cellular and tissue location, and the rates of their formation and degradation. Moreover, ROS serve important physiological functions; thus, inappropriate removal of ROS may cause paradoxical reductive stress and thereby induce or promote disease. CRITICAL ISSUES: Any recommendation on antioxidants must be based on solid clinical evidence and patient-relevant outcomes rather than surrogate parameters. FUTURE DIRECTIONS: Such evidence-based use may include site-directed application, time-limited high dosing, (functional) pharmacological repair of oxidized biomolecules, and triggers of endogenous antioxidant response systems. Ideally, these approaches need guidance by patient stratification through predictive biomarkers and possibly imaging modalities.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntioxidantsHumansOxidation-ReductionOxidative StressReactive Oxygen SpeciesResveratrolStilbenesTranslational Research, BiomedicalAntioxidantsReactive Oxygen SpeciesResveratrolStilbenes

Identifiers

PMID26154592
PMCPMC4657516
OpenAlexW1699432502

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