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ArticleOncotarget2017

Circulating betatrophin is associated with insulin resistance in humans: cross-sectional and interventional studies

Han Wang, Lin Du, Tong Wu, Gangyi Yang, Wenjing Hu, Hansheng Wang, Mengliu Yang, Dongfang Liu, Harvest F Gu, Zhiming Zhu and 2 more

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Article in Oncotarget, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.

Han Wang
Lin Du
Tong Wu
Gangyi Yang
Wenjing Hu
Hansheng Wang
Mengliu Yang
Dongfang Liu
Harvest F GuDepartment of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden.
Zhiming ZhuDepartment of Hypertension and Endocrinology, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing Institute of Hypertension, Chongqing, China.
Hongting ZhengDepartment of Endocrinology, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Ling LiThe Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics in The Ministry of Education and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Chongqing Medical University · CNDalian Medical University · CNSecond Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University · CNArmy Medical University · CNKarolinska Institutet · SEMinistry of EducationMinistry of Education of the People's Republic of China · CNXinqiao Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Betatrophin has a closely relationship with metabolism. However, its effect on metabolism disorder remains unclear. This study was comprised of a series of cross-sectional and interventional studies

Indexed as

betatrophincell cross-talkGerotargetinsulin resistanceinterventional studymetabolic disorders

Identifiers

PMID29228555
PMCPMC5722507
OpenAlexW2765249710

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