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ArticleCritical care (London, England)2020

Response to "Association between metformin use prior to admission and lower mortality in septic adult patients with diabetes mellitus: beware of potential confounders".

Huoyan Liang, Xianfei Ding, Tongwen Sun

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2020. 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

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Huoyan LiangGeneral ICU, Henan Key Laboratory of Critical Care Medicine, Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Sepsis, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, China.
Xianfei DingGeneral ICU, Henan Key Laboratory of Critical Care Medicine, Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Sepsis, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, China.
Tongwen SunGeneral ICU, Henan Key Laboratory of Critical Care Medicine, Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Sepsis, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, China. suntongwen@163.com.ORCID 0000-0001-6536-3222

Funding

Provincial Ministry Co-construction Project from Medical Scientific and Technological Research Program of Henan Province SBGJ2018020Science and Technology people-benefit project of Zhengzhou 2019KJHM0001the Scientific and Technological Innovation leaders in Central Plains 194200510017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Diabetes MellitusMetforminSepsisAdultCohort StudiesHumansHypoglycemic AgentsHypoglycemic AgentsMetformin

Identifiers

PMID32375826
PMCPMC7201954

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