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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

Metformin's Overall Effectiveness and Combined Action with Lifestyle Interventions in Preventing Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus in High-Risk Metformin-Naïve Patients: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Published RCTs.

Georgios I Tsironikos, Vasiliki Tsolaki, George E Zakynthinos, Vasiliki Rammou, Despoina Kyprianidou, Thomas Antonogiannis, Epaminondas Zakynthinos, Alexandra Bargiota

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers 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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Repurposing metformin for choriocarcinoma: targeting the AMPK/mTOR pathway.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026
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  6. Metformin Beyond Glycemic Control: Cardiovascular Protection and Diabetes Prevention.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026
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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

8 authors.

Georgios I TsironikosDepartment of Research for General Medicine and Primary Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, University Campus, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.
Vasiliki TsolakiDepartment of Critical Care, University Hospital of Larissa, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Mezourlo, 41335 Larissa, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2412-5388
George E Zakynthinos3rd Department of Cardiology, "Sotiria" Chest Diseases Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Vasiliki RammouFaculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Mezourlo, 41335 Larissa, Greece.
Despoina KyprianidouMedical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Thomas AntonogiannisFaculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Mezourlo, 41335 Larissa, Greece.
Epaminondas ZakynthinosDepartment of Critical Care, University Hospital of Larissa, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Mezourlo, 41335 Larissa, Greece.
Alexandra BargiotaDepartment of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology, University Hospital of Larissa, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Mezourlo, 41335 Larissa, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

diabetesdietexerciselifestylemetforminnutritionphysical activity

Identifiers

PMID40725640
PMCPMC12295976

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