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ArticleBiological trace element research2025

Retraction Note: Do Zinc Supplements Enhance the Clinical Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine?: A Randomized, Multicenter Trial.

Sherief Abd-Elsalam, Shaimaa Soliman, Eslam Saber Esmail, Mai Khalaf, Ehab F Mostafa, Mohammed A Medhat, Ossama Ashraf Ahmed, Mohamed Samir Abd El Ghafar, Mohamed Alboraie, Sahar M Hassany

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Article in Biological trace element research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Sherief Abd-ElsalamTropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, El-Giash Street, Tanta, 31527, Egypt.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4366-2218
Shaimaa SolimanPublic health and Community Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt.
Eslam Saber EsmailTropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, El-Giash Street, Tanta, 31527, Egypt.
Mai KhalafTropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, El-Giash Street, Tanta, 31527, Egypt.
Ehab F MostafaTropical Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
Mohammed A MedhatTropical Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
Ossama Ashraf AhmedInternal Medicine Department, Ain-shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Mohamed Samir Abd El GhafarDepartment of Anesthesia, Surgical Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.
Mohamed AlboraieDepartment of Internal Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
Sahar M HassanyTropical Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID38512453
PMCPMC12439773

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