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ReviewNutrients2019

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Rebekka Heitmar, James Brown, Ioannis Kyrou

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In one paragraph

Review in Nutrients, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Effect ofNutrients · 2021
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  2. DoesJournal of evidence-based integrative medicine
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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

3 authors.

Rebekka HeitmarAston University, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK. R.Heitmar1@aston.ac.uk.
James BrownAston University, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK. j.e.p.brown@aston.ac.uk.
Ioannis KyrouAston Medical Research Institute, Aston Medical School, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK. I.Kyrou@aston.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

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Identifiers

PMID30889784
PMCPMC6471055

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Registered trials

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