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ReviewGut microbes

How important are fatty acids in human health and can they be used in treating diseases?

Leon M T Dicks

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In one paragraph

Review in Gut microbes. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

68 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

1 author.

Leon M T DicksDepartment of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-5157-9046

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most of the short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are produced by

Indexed as

Fatty Acids, VolatileAnimalsBacteriaCardiovascular DiseasesGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansFatty Acids, VolatileFatty acidshuman healthtreatment of diseases

Identifiers

PMID39462280
PMCPMC11520540

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