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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021

Brain Glucose Metabolism in Health, Obesity, and Cognitive Decline-Does Insulin Have Anything to Do with It? A Narrative Review.

Eleni Rebelos, Juha O Rinne, Pirjo Nuutila, Laura L Ekblad

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Cognitive benefits of sleep: a narrative review to explore the relevance of glucose regulation.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eleni RebelosTurku PET Centre, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, 20520 Turku, Finland.
Juha O RinneTurku PET Centre, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, 20520 Turku, Finland.
Pirjo NuutilaTurku PET Centre, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, 20520 Turku, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-9597-338X
Laura L EkbladTurku PET Centre, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, 20520 Turku, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-5863-8088
University of Turku · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Imaging brain glucose metabolism with fluorine-labelled fluorodeoxyglucose ([

Indexed as

Alzheimer’s diseasebrain glucose uptakeinsulin sensitivitypositron emission tomography

Identifiers

PMID33917464
PMCPMC8038699
OpenAlexW3141113378

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Registered trials

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