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ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2020

A prospective, randomized, open-label, placebo-controlled comparative study of

V Vasanth Kumar, Kulur Mukhyaprana Sudha, Shilpa Bennur, Karukkupalayam Ramasamy Dhanasekar

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Article in Journal of family medicine and primary care, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

V Vasanth KumarInstitute of Pharmacology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Kulur Mukhyaprana SudhaInstitute of Pharmacology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Shilpa BennurDepartment of Medical and Scientific Affairs, Tablets India Limited, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Karukkupalayam Ramasamy DhanasekarDepartment of Medical and Scientific Affairs, Tablets India Limited, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Madras Medical College · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionDigestive symptoms are common affecting more than 60% of the elderly people. Digestive enzyme deficiency and dysbiosis in the gastric fluid microbiota are the major contributors in the pathophysiology of indigestion. Therefore, therapeutic strategy targeting the gastric microbiota and digestive enzymes has the potential to treat indigestion. This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of probiotic

methodsAn open-labelled, randomized, prospective study was conducted in geriatric patients with complaints of indigestion. The study group (

resultsReduction in Modified Glasgow dyspepsia severity score from baseline to follow up was statistically significant in the study group when compared to the control group (

conclusion

Indexed as

Bacillus coagulansdigestive enzymesgeriatricsindigestion

Identifiers

PMID32318476
PMCPMC7113997
OpenAlexW3009061220

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