RE: Statistical Interpretation Error in Metformin Trial Article.

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.

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.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Contrary to the Conclusions Stated in the Paper, Only Dry Fat-Free Mass Was Different between Groups upon Reanalysis. Comment on: "Intermittent Energy Restriction Attenuates the Loss of Fat-Free Mass in Resistance Trained Individuals. A Randomized Controlled Trial".Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2020
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2. Childhood obesity intervention studies: A narrative review and guide for investigators, authors, editors, reviewers, journalists, and readers to guard against exaggerated effectiveness claims.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2019
   Review
3. The Conclusions Are Unsupported by the Data, Are Based on Invalid Analyses, Are Incorrect, and Should be Corrected: Letter Regarding "Sleep Quality and Body Composition Variations in Obese Male Adults after 14 weeks of Yoga Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial".International journal of yoga
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Corrections and comments

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  Authors' Response.2017
• Comment on
  Metformin for Obesity in Prepubertal and Pubertal Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial.2017

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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