Evidence mapPaperPMID 27328813Full record

ArticleLipids in health and disease2016

Metformin promotes cholesterol efflux in macrophages by up-regulating FGF21 expression: a novel anti-atherosclerotic mechanism.

Fei Luo, Yuan Guo, Guiyun Ruan, Xiangping Li

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Article in Lipids in health and disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Fei LuoDepartment of Internal Cardiovascular Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, 139 Middle Renmin Road, Changsha, 410011, People's Republic of China.
Yuan GuoDepartment of Internal Cardiovascular Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, 139 Middle Renmin Road, Changsha, 410011, People's Republic of China.
Guiyun RuanDepartment of Internal Cardiovascular Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, 139 Middle Renmin Road, Changsha, 410011, People's Republic of China.
Xiangping LiDepartment of Internal Cardiovascular Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, 139 Middle Renmin Road, Changsha, 410011, People's Republic of China. lixp0040@sina.com.
Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University · CNCentral South University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnticholesteremic AgentsATP Binding Cassette Transporter 1ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily G, Member 1Biological TransportCholesterolFibroblast Growth FactorsGene Expression RegulationHumansHypoglycemic AgentsMacrophagesMetforminMiceMice, KnockoutPlaque, AtheroscleroticPrimary Cell CultureABCA1 protein, humanABCG1 protein, humanAnticholesteremic AgentsATP Binding Cassette Transporter 1ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily G, Member 1Cholesterolfibroblast growth factor 21Fibroblast Growth FactorsHypoglycemic AgentsMetforminABCA1ABCG1Cholesterol effluxFGF21MacrophageMetformin

Identifiers

PMID27328813
PMCPMC4915047
OpenAlexW2464834716

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.