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ArticleThe world journal of men's health2024

Sperm

Rossella Cannarella, Claudia Leanza, Andrea Crafa, Federica Barbagallo, Sandro La Vignera, Rosita Angela Condorelli, Aldo Eugenio Calogero

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Article in The world journal of men's health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Rossella CannarellaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4599-8487
Claudia LeanzaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5034-4026
Andrea CrafaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8311-9095
Federica BarbagalloDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7642-4553
Sandro La VigneraDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7113-2372
Rosita Angela CondorelliDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5217-9343
Aldo Eugenio CalogeroDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6950-335X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe MATERIALS AND

methodsThis meta-analysis was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42023397056) and performed following the MOOSE guidelines for Meta-analyses and Systematic Reviews of Observational Studies and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P). Only original articles evaluating

resultsOf 354 abstracts evaluated for eligibility, only 6 studies were included in the quantitative synthesis, involving a total of 301 patients and 163 controls. Our analysis showed significantly higher levels of

conclusionsSperm DNA methylation may be associated with epigenetic risk in assisted reproductive techniques (ART). The

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EpigenomicsInfertilityMethylationOligospermia

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PMID37853535
PMCPMC11216954

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