Glycaemic fluctuations across the menstrual cycle: possible effect of the brain.

Julia Hummel, Stephanie Kullmann, Róbert Wagner, Martin Heni

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Article in The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology, 2023. 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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4citing papers in PubMed

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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.

Type 2 diabetes prevention across the life course.Nature medicine · 2026
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The autonomic nervous system in the regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2026
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The interplay of central insulin and menstrual cycle on functional brain networks and neural food cue reactivity in women.Communications biology · 2026
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A randomised controlled trial of short-term Intermittent Energy Restriction [IER] versus Continuous Energy Restriction [CER] on body fat stores and measures of insulin resistance in women with obesity at increased risk of breast cancer.BMC nutrition · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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Blood glucose variance measured by continuous glucose monitors across the menstrual cycle.2023

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Julia HummelDivision of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Ulm 89081, Germany.

Stephanie KullmannInstitute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Diabetology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany.

Róbert WagnerGerman Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany; Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Auf'm Hennekamp 65, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany; Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Martin HeniDivision of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Ulm 89081, Germany; Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Department for Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: martin.heni@uniklinik-ulm.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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BrainMenstrual CycleFemaleHumans

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PMID37866366

DOI10.1016/S2213-8587(23)00286-3

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