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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2022

Effect of metformin on the epigenetic age of peripheral blood in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Man Li, Litao Bao, Ping Zhu, Shuxia Wang

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The Bidirectional Relationship Between Diabetes and Cancer: Mechanistic Insights, Epigenetic Intermediaries, and Therapeutic Approaches.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2026
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  10. Quantification of Epigenetic Aging in Public Health.Annual review of public health · 2025
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  12. DNA methylation and prediction of biological age.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2025
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  14. Biomarkers of aging.Science China. Life 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Man LiDepartment of Geriatrics, The Second Medical Center and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Litao BaoInstitute of Gerontology, Second Medical Center, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Ping ZhuDepartment of Geriatrics, The Second Medical Center and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Shuxia WangDepartment of Geriatrics, The Second Medical Center and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Chinese PLA General Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

agingbiomarkerDNA methylationepigeneticsmetformin

Identifiers

PMID36226195
PMCPMC9548538
OpenAlexW4297235785

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