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ReviewThe world journal of men's health2020

Sex Differences in Gut Microbiota.

Yong Sung Kim, Tatsuya Unno, Byung Yong Kim, Mi Sung Park

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Review in The world journal of men's health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 397 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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397citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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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

397 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. When bad turns good: a systematic review on cholesterol and LDL in longitudinal patient cohorts with Parkinson's disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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  11. Gut microbial alterations and functional shifts in patients with hypertriglyceridemia: insights from a northwestern Chinese metagenomic study.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2026
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337 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

4 authors.

Yong Sung KimDigestive Disease Research Institute and Department of Gastroenterology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8836-4818
Tatsuya UnnoSubtropical/Tropical Organism Gene Bank, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-2100
Byung Yong KimChunLab, Inc., Seoul, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4229-8859
Mi Sung ParkInstitute for Metabolic Disease, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1445-6872

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea 2016R1A6A1A03012862National Research Foundation of Korea 2019H1C3A1032224
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans carry numerous symbiotic microorganisms in their body, most of which are present in the gut. Although recent technological advances have produced extensive research data on gut microbiota, there are various confounding factors (

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Gastrointestinal tractGonadal steroid hormonesMicrobiotaSex differences

Identifiers

PMID30929328
PMCPMC6920072

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