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ReviewNutrients2020

Vitamin D's Effect on Immune Function.

Pieter-Jan Martens, Conny Gysemans, Annemieke Verstuyf, And Chantal Mathieu

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Review in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 239 papers, 15 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
239citing papers in PubMed, 15 pooled it
35.5field-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

239 citing papers in PubMed, 15 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 420 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Effects of vitamin DJournal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2026
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  18. Vitamins DFrontiers in immunology · 2022
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179 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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pieter-Jan MartensClinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), KU Leuven. Campus Gasthuisberg O&N1, Herestraat 49, box 902, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Conny GysemansClinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), KU Leuven. Campus Gasthuisberg O&N1, Herestraat 49, box 902, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Annemieke VerstuyfClinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), KU Leuven. Campus Gasthuisberg O&N1, Herestraat 49, box 902, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
And Chantal MathieuClinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), KU Leuven. Campus Gasthuisberg O&N1, Herestraat 49, box 902, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
KU Leuven · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ever since its discovery by Windhaus, the importance of the active metabolite of vitamin D (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D

Indexed as

Arthritis, RheumatoidAutoimmune DiseasesB-LymphocytesCalcitriolDendritic CellsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1HumansImmune SystemMacrophagesMonocytesMultiple SclerosisReceptors, CalcitriolT-LymphocytesVitamin DVitamin D DeficiencyCalcitriolReceptors, CalcitriolVitamin D1,25-(OH)2D3autoimmune diseaseimmune systeminfectious diseasemultiple sclerosisrheumatoid arthritistype 1 diabetesVitamin D

Identifiers

PMID32353972
PMCPMC7281985
OpenAlexW3022354617

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