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ReviewChinese medicine2020

Chinese herbal medicine for gout: a review of the clinical evidence and pharmacological mechanisms.

Xiansu Chi, Hongxiu Zhang, Shuo Zhang, Ke Ma

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Review in Chinese medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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48citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 104 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xiansu Chi *1Shandong Co-Innovation Center of Classic TCM Formula, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 4655, University Road, Changqing District, Jinan, 250355 Shandong China.
Hongxiu Zhang *Institute of Virology, Jinan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, 250021 People's Republic of China.
Shuo Zhang1Shandong Co-Innovation Center of Classic TCM Formula, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 4655, University Road, Changqing District, Jinan, 250355 Shandong China.
Ke Ma1Shandong Co-Innovation Center of Classic TCM Formula, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 4655, University Road, Changqing District, Jinan, 250355 Shandong China.ORCID 0000-0003-4942-9281
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNShandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gout is a common arthritis condition due to disorders of purine metabolism and decreased uric acid excretion. Although researchers have carried out various studies on this disease, there are no effective drugs for patients with gout. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), gout pertains the category of

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Bi patternGoutPharmacological mechanismTraditional Chinese medicine

Identifiers

PMID32082411
PMCPMC7017512
OpenAlexW3012747607

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