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Trial reportNutrients2020

Maternal Docosahexaenoic Acid Status during Pregnancy and Its Impact on Infant Neurodevelopment.

Sanjay Basak, Rahul Mallick, Asim K Duttaroy

Open access · goldAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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57citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 118 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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Sanjay BasakMolecular Biology Division, National Institute Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Hyderabad-500 007, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8161-5597
Rahul MallickDepartment of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, 70211 Kuopio, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-4065-3474
Asim K DuttaroyDepartment of Nutrition, IMB, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-1619-3778
Indian Council of Medical Research · INUniversity of Eastern Finland · FIUniversity of Oslo · NO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dietary components are essential for the structural and functional development of the brain. Among these, docosahexaenoic acid, 22:6n-3 (DHA), is critically necessary for the structure and development of the growing fetal brain

Indexed as

Breast FeedingChild DevelopmentMaternal Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaAdultBiomarkersDocosahexaenoic AcidsDouble-Blind MethodFemaleHumansInfantLuteinMicronutrientsMilk, HumanYoung AdultBiomarkersDocosahexaenoic AcidsLuteinMicronutrientsbrainDHAfetusinfantMFSD2aneurogenesisplacentapregnancypre-termSPM

Identifiers

PMID33255561
PMCPMC7759779
OpenAlexW3093909520

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