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ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2018

Association Between Vitamin D, Reproductive Hormones and Sperm Parameters in Infertile Male Subjects.

Rehana Rehman, Salima Lalani, Mukhtiar Baig, Iman Nizami, Zohaib Rana, Zohair Jamil Gazzaz

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Article in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018. 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
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

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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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 64 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Rehana RehmanDepartment of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Salima LalaniDepartment of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Mukhtiar BaigDepartment of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Rabigh, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Iman NizamiMedical Student, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Zohaib RanaDepartment of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Zohair Jamil GazzazDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Rabigh, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Aga Khan University · PKKing Abdulaziz University · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

25OHDFSHinfertilityLHtestosteronevitamin D

Identifiers

PMID30386296
PMCPMC6198108
OpenAlexW2895816813

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