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Trial reportNutrients2018

Effects of an Aqueous Extract of

Tim N Ziegenfuss, Anurag W Kedia, Jennifer E Sandrock, Betsy J Raub, Chad M Kerksick, Hector L Lopez

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Nutrients, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

36 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Adjunctive Ashwagandha (Nutrients · 2026
    Pooled it
  2. Effects ofNutrients · 2026
    Pooled it
  3. Effects ofFrontiers in pharmacology · 2026
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  8. Effects ofNutrients · 2025
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  15. Plant Part-Specific Differences in Ashwagandha (Food science & nutrition · 2026
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  18. Article
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  20. Biopsychological Effects of Ashwagandha (Muscles (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Tim N ZiegenfussThe Center for Applied Health Sciences, 4302 Allen Road, Suite 120, Stow, OH 44224, USA. tz@appliedhealthsciences.org.
Anurag W KediaThe Center for Applied Health Sciences, 4302 Allen Road, Suite 120, Stow, OH 44224, USA. Awkedia@sbcglobal.net.
Jennifer E SandrockThe Center for Applied Health Sciences, 4302 Allen Road, Suite 120, Stow, OH 44224, USA. jh@appliedhealthsciences.org.
Betsy J RaubThe Center for Applied Health Sciences, 4302 Allen Road, Suite 120, Stow, OH 44224, USA. br@appliedhealthsciences.org.ORCID 0000-0002-4452-854X
Chad M KerksickExercise and Performance Nutrition Laboratory, School of Health Sciences, Lindenwood University, 209 S. Kingshighway, St. Charles, MO 63301, USA. ckerksick@lindenwood.edu.
Hector L LopezThe Center for Applied Health Sciences, 4302 Allen Road, Suite 120, Stow, OH 44224, USA. hl@appliedhealthsciences.org.
Lindenwood University · US

Funding

Natreon, Inc. (New Brunswick, NJ) N/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultBody CompositionDietary SupplementsDouble-Blind MethodErythrocyte CountErythrocytesHumansLipoproteins, LDLMaleMuscle, SkeletalMuscle StrengthPhysical EndurancePlacebosPlant ExtractsResistance TrainingSports Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaLipoproteins, LDLPlacebosPlant ExtractsAshwaganhdaAyurvedicDEXAexerciseplaceboresistance trainingstrength

Identifiers

PMID30463324
PMCPMC6266766
OpenAlexW2900847340

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.