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Observational studyBMJ open diabetes research & care2020

Association of vitamin B

Zahid Miyan, Nazish Waris, MIBD

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Observational study in BMJ open diabetes research & care, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zahid MiyanDepartment of Medicine, Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology, Baqai Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan drzahidmiyan@yahoo.com.ORCID 0000-0002-1592-0980
Nazish WarisClinical Biochemistry and Psychopharmacology Research Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
MIBD
Baqai Medical University · PKUniversity of Karachi · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo assess the prevalence of vitamin B METHODOLOGY: Between May 2018 and January 2019, this prospective multicenter observational study recruited participants from seven centers in four provinces of Pakistan (Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). Participants with T2DM treated with metformin for >2 years and those not on metformin underwent assessment of hemoglobin, vitamin B

resultsOf 932 subjects, 645 (69.2%) were treated with metformin, while 287 (30.8%) were not on metformin. Overall, B

conclusionThis study shows that vitamin B

Indexed as

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2MetforminVitamin B 12 DeficiencyHumansHypoglycemic AgentsPakistanProspective StudiesVitamin B 12VitaminsHypoglycemic AgentsMetforminVitamin B 12Vitaminsblood glucose monitoringclinical researchcontrolmetformin

Identifiers

PMID32448786
PMCPMC7252966
OpenAlexW3028073263

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