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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Comment on Ambra et al. Could Selenium Supplementation Prevent COVID-19? A Comprehensive Review of Available Studies.

Margaret P Rayman, Lutz Schomburg, Jinsong Zhang, Ethan Will Taylor, Gijs Du Laing, Melinda Beck, David J Hughes, Raban Heller

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. 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

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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

8 authors.

Margaret P RaymanDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3126-5709
Lutz SchomburgInstitute of Experimental Endocrinology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9445-1555
Jinsong ZhangState Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, School of Tea & Food Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9366-9819
Ethan Will TaylorDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0021-3044
Gijs Du LaingFaculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-6661-1312
Melinda BeckGillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
David J HughesSchool of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-1668-8770
Raban HellerInstitute of Experimental Endocrinology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8006-9742

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The authors of this Comment are longstanding selenium investigators with a total of 200 or more published articles on selenium; the corresponding author (Margaret P [...].

Indexed as

COVID-19Dietary SupplementsSeleniumHumansSARS-CoV-2Selenium

Identifiers

PMID38893342
PMCPMC11173556

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