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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

Metabolomic Biomarkers in Anxiety Disorders.

Elke Humer, Christoph Pieh, Thomas Probst

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 63 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elke HumerDepartment for Psychotherapy and Biopsychosocial Health, Danube University Krems, 3500 Krems, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-9776-0353
Christoph PiehDepartment for Psychotherapy and Biopsychosocial Health, Danube University Krems, 3500 Krems, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-2708-303X
Thomas ProbstDepartment for Psychotherapy and Biopsychosocial Health, Danube University Krems, 3500 Krems, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-6113-2133
Universität für Weiterbildung Krems · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anxiety disorders range among the most prevalent psychiatric disorders and belong to the leading disorders in the study of the total global burden of disease. Anxiety disorders are complex conditions, with not fully understood etiological mechanisms. Numerous factors, including psychological, genetic, biological, and chemical factors, are thought to be involved in their etiology. Although the diagnosis of anxiety disorders is constantly evolving, diagnostic manuals rely on symptom lists, not on objective biomarkers and treatment effects are small to moderate. The underlying biological factors that drive anxiety disorders may be better suited to serve as biomarkers for guiding personalized medicine, as they are objective and can be measured externally. Therefore, the incorporation of novel biomarkers into current clinical methods might help to generate a classification system for anxiety disorders that can be linked to the underlying dysfunctional pathways. The study of metabolites (metabolomics) in a large-scale manner shows potential for disease diagnosis, for stratification of patients in a heterogeneous patient population, for monitoring therapeutic efficacy and disease progression, and for defining therapeutic targets. All of these are important properties for anxiety disorders, which is a multifactorial condition not involving a single-gene mutation. This review summarizes recent investigations on metabolomics studies in anxiety disorders.

Indexed as

MetabolomePrecision MedicineAnimalsAnxiety DisordersBiomarkersDisease ProgressionHumansBiomarkersanxietybiomarkersmetabolitesmetabolomics

Identifiers

PMID32640734
PMCPMC7369790
OpenAlexW3038797803

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