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ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2021

Rates of Metformin Use in Stage 3b Chronic Kidney Disease Rose After FDA Label Change.

Alex Huang, Xian Wu, Jeremy Orloff, Jea Young Min, James Flory

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Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Stopping Versus Continuing Metformin in Patients With Advanced CKD: A Nationwide Scottish Target Trial Emulation Study.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2025 · on this map
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alex HuangWeill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Xian WuWeill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Jeremy OrloffWeill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Jea Young MinWeill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
James FloryWeill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. floryj@mskcc.org.ORCID 0000-0002-0259-969X

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute CER-2017C3-9230
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MetforminRenal Insufficiency, ChronicHumansHypoglycemic AgentsHypoglycemic AgentsMetformin

Identifiers

PMID33409883
PMCPMC8481432

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