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ReviewCurrent diabetes reviews2024

Vitamin E and Diabetic Foot Ulcers.

Nikolaos D Karakousis, Elisavet E Pyrgioti, Petros N Georgakopoulos, Dimitrios S Karagiannakis, Nikolaos Papanas

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Review in Current diabetes reviews, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

5 authors.

Nikolaos D KarakousisSecond Department of Internal Medicine, Diabetes Centre-Diabetic Foot Clinic, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4882-7042
Elisavet E PyrgiotiPharmacist, Private Practice, Athens, Greece.
Petros N GeorgakopoulosPrimary Healthcare, Internal Medicine Department, Amarousion, Attica, Greece.
Dimitrios S KaragiannakisAcademic Department of Gastroenterology, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Nikolaos PapanasSecond Department of Internal Medicine, Diabetes Centre-Diabetic Foot Clinic, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7320-785X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This narrative mini-review discusses vitamin E levels in subjects with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). Vitamin E may be reduced in subjects with DFUs, but this finding is inconsistent. Its administration appears to benefit patients with DM, delaying the onset of complications, including DFUs. There is also evidence that it may promote DFUs healing. Nonetheless, further studies are required to confirm these promising results and estimate vitamin E administration's costeffectiveness.

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Diabetic FootVitamin EWound HealingAntioxidantsHumansVitamin E DeficiencyAntioxidantsVitamin Ecomplicationsdiabetes mellitusdiabetic footdiabetic foot ulcershealing.Vitamin E

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PMID37711108

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