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Trial reportNutrients2019

Daily Nutritional Supplementation with Vitamin D₃ and Phenylbutyrate to Treatment-Naïve HIV Patients Tested in a Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial.

Senait Ashenafi, Wondwossen Amogne, Endale Kassa, Nebiat Gebreselassie, Amsalu Bekele, Getachew Aseffa, Meron Getachew, Abraham Aseffa, Alemayehu Worku, Ulf Hammar and 4 more

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Nutrients, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Adjunct Therapy for CD4Frontiers in immunology · 2021
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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

14 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Senait AshenafiCenter for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels Allé 8 (ANA8), 141 52 Huddinge, Sweden. Senait.Ashenafi.Betemariam@ki.se.
Wondwossen AmogneDepartment of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Tikur Anbessa University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. wonamogne@yahoo.com.ORCID 0000-0002-4950-3966
Endale KassaDepartment of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Tikur Anbessa University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. endalekl@yahoo.com.
Nebiat GebreselassieCenter for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels Allé 8 (ANA8), 141 52 Huddinge, Sweden. nebiatye@yahoo.com.
Amsalu BekeleDepartment of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Tikur Anbessa University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. amsalubekele2016@gmail.com.
Getachew AseffaDepartment of Radiology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Tikur Anbessa University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. g_asefa@yahoo.com.
Meron GetachewDepartment of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Tikur Anbessa University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. merget2004@yahoo.com.
Abraham AseffaArmauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. aseffaa@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-8028-1150
Alemayehu WorkuDepartment of Public Health, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Tikur Anbessa University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. alemayehuwy@yahoo.com.
Ulf HammarInstitute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. ulf.hammar@ki.se.
Peter BergmanClinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine (Labmed), Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels Allé 8 (ANA8), 141 52 Huddinge, Sweden. peter.bergman@ki.se.ORCID 0000-0003-3306-3713
Getachew AderayeDepartment of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Tikur Anbessa University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. getadera@yahoo.com.
Jan AnderssonCenter for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels Allé 8 (ANA8), 141 52 Huddinge, Sweden. jan.p.andersson@sll.se.
Susanna BrighentiCenter for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels Allé 8 (ANA8), 141 52 Huddinge, Sweden. susanna.brighenti@ki.se.
Tikur Anbessa Hospital · ETKarolinska Institutet · SEArmauer Hansen Research Institute · ETKarolinska University Hospital · SE

Funding

Hjärt-Lungfonden 2014-0752Karolinska Institutet senior research position for SBMerck KGaA provided study drugs (Vigantoletten)Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap 2010-7938Vetenskapsrådet K2015-56X-20665-08-3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Poor nutritional status is common among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients including vitamin D (vitD₃) deficiency. We conducted a double-blinded, randomized, and placebo-controlled trial in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to investigate if daily nutritional supplementation with vitD₃ (5000 IU) and phenylbutyrate (PBA, 2 × 500 mg) could mediate beneficial effects in treatment-naïve HIV patients. Primary endpoint: the change in plasma HIV-1 comparing week 0 to 16 using modified intention-to-treat (mITT,

Indexed as

Dietary SupplementsAdultBody Mass IndexButyratesCD4 Lymphocyte CountCholecalciferolDouble-Blind MethodEthiopiaFemaleHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansMalePhenylbutyratesViral LoadVitamin D25-hydroxyvitamin D4-phenylbutyric acidButyratesCholecalciferolPhenylbutyratesVitamin DVitaminsclinical trialHIV infectionimmunitynutritionsupplementationvitamin D

Identifiers

PMID30634590
PMCPMC6356462
OpenAlexW2909628233

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