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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2020

Metformin as Host-Directed Therapy for TB Treatment: Scoping Review.

Nikita Naicker, Alex Sigal, Kogieleum Naidoo

Open access · goldAbstract readScoping Review
In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Metformin improvesFrontiers in immunology · 2024
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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nikita NaickerCentre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Durban, South Africa.
Alex SigalAfrica Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa.
Kogieleum NaidooCentre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Durban, South Africa.
Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa · ZAMax Planck Institute for Infection Biology · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) disease is an international health concern caused by the bacteria

Indexed as

adjuvanthost-directed therapymetforminMycobacterium tuberculosistuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID32411100
PMCPMC7201016
OpenAlexW3022017613

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.