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Trial reportMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Impact of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 during Periodontitis and Cardiovascular Diseases.

Gaetano Isola, Alessandro Polizzi, Vincenzo Ronsivalle, Angela Alibrandi, Giuseppe Palazzo, Antonino Lo Giudice

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Trial report in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Effect and mechanism of Sanqi () in treating periodontitis.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2025
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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gaetano IsolaDepartment of General Surgery and Surgical-Medical Specialties, School of Dentistry, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4267-6992
Alessandro PolizziDepartment of General Surgery and Surgical-Medical Specialties, School of Dentistry, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6717-8899
Vincenzo RonsivalleDepartment of General Surgery and Surgical-Medical Specialties, School of Dentistry, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3059-4981
Angela AlibrandiDepartment of Economical, Business and Environmental Sciences and Quantitative Methods, University of Messina, 98122 Messina, Italy.
Giuseppe PalazzoDepartment of General Surgery and Surgical-Medical Specialties, School of Dentistry, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy.
Antonino Lo GiudiceDepartment of General Surgery and Surgical-Medical Specialties, School of Dentistry, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6086-2348
University of Catania · ITUniversity of Messina · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) has been shown to play a key role in endothelial function and perhaps pivotal in the correlation between periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease (CVD). For the study, the impact of MMP-9 of periodontitis and CVD on serum and saliva concentrations was analyzed. For the study patients with periodontitis (n = 31), CVD (n = 31), periodontitis + CVD (n = 31), and healthy patients (n = 31) were enrolled. Clinical and demographic characteristics as well as serum and salivary MMP-9 were evaluated. MMP-9 concentrations in serum and saliva were statistically elevated in patients with CVD (

Indexed as

AdultAgedCardiovascular DiseasesC-Reactive ProteinFemaleHumansMaleMatrix Metalloproteinase 9Middle AgedPeriodontitisSalivaC-Reactive ProteinMatrix Metalloproteinase 9MMP9 protein, humancardiovascular diseaseclinical trialmatrix metalloproteinasesperiodontitissalivaserum

Identifiers

PMID33810003
PMCPMC8004886
OpenAlexW3137086515

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