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Trial reportNutrients2021

Serum Levels of Dihomo-Gamma (γ)-Linolenic Acid (DGLA) Are Inversely Associated with Linoleic Acid and Total Death in Elderly Patients with a Recent Myocardial Infarction.

Dennis Winston T Nilsen, Peder Langeland Myhre, Are Kalstad, Erik Berg Schmidt, Harald Arnesen, Ingebjørg Seljeflot

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Nutrients, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Recent advances and future directions on GLA-producing organisms.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025
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  10. Dihomo-International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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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 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Dennis Winston T NilsenDepartment of Cardiology, Stavanger University Hospital, 4068 Stavanger, Norway.
Peder Langeland MyhreInstitute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway.
Are KalstadInstitute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway.
Erik Berg SchmidtDepartment of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark.
Harald ArnesenInstitute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway.
Ingebjørg SeljeflotInstitute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-4071-3358
Oslo University Hospital · NOAalborg University Hospital · DKStavanger University Hospital · NOUniversity of Oslo · NO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid (DGLA) is an

Indexed as

8,11,14-Eicosatrienoic AcidAgedFemaleHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateLinoleic AcidMaleMultivariate AnalysisMyocardial InfarctionPhospholipidsProportional Hazards Models8,11,14-Eicosatrienoic AcidLinoleic AcidPhospholipidsall-cause mortalitybiomarkerdelta-6-desaturaseDGLAdihomo-gamma (γ)-linolenic acidLA:DGLA ratiomyocardial infarctionn-6 fatty acidsprognosis

Identifiers

PMID34684479
PMCPMC8540726
OpenAlexW3202471511

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