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ArticleJournal of diabetes research2017

The Relation between Periodontopathogenic Bacterial Levels and Resistin in the Saliva of Obese Type 2 Diabetic Patients.

Natheer Al-Rawi, Farah Al-Marzooq

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Article in Journal of diabetes research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Natheer Al-RawiCollege of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.ORCID 0000-0002-7483-6594
Farah Al-MarzooqSharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.ORCID 0000-0001-5711-6264
University of Sharjah · AE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relation between resistin and periodontopathogenic bacterial levels in the saliva of obese adults compared to healthy control and to examine whether salivary resistin can serve as a biomarker of type 2 diabetes in obese patients. A total of 78 saliva samples were collected from patients attending to the University Dental Hospital, Sharjah, UAE. The patients were divided into three equal groups: obese diabetics, obese nondiabetics, and nonobese nondiabetic control. Salivary resistin was measured using ELISA. The levels of bacterial species associated with periodontitis (

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AdultAggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitansBlood GlucoseBody Mass IndexDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1FemaleFusobacteriumGingivitisHumansMaleMiddle AgedObesityPeriodontitisPorphyromonas gingivalisResistinSalivaBlood GlucoseResistin

Identifiers

PMID29138754
PMCPMC5613684
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