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ArticleIrish journal of medical science2022

Metformin in COVID-19: clinical trials are needed to prove its benefits.

Chia Siang Kow, Dinesh Sangarran Ramachandram, Syed Shahzad Hasan

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Article in Irish journal of medical science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 52% 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

0 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Chia Siang KowSchool of Postgraduate Studies, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. chiasiang_93@hotmail.com.
Dinesh Sangarran RamachandramSchool of Postgraduate Studies, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Syed Shahzad HasanSchool of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK.
International Medical University · MYUniversity of Huddersfield · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2MetforminHumansHypoglycemic AgentsHypoglycemic AgentsMetformin

Identifiers

PMID34997410
PMCPMC8741591
OpenAlexW4206792010

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.