Table 3.
Main path articles in the vitamin E example
| Study | Title | Journal | Design | References madea | Citations receiveda |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stahelin, 1984 [98] | Cancer, vitamins, and plasma lipids: prospective Basel study | JNCI | OBS | 0 | 5 |
| Gey, 1987 [99] | Plasma levels of antioxidant vitamins in relation to ischemic heart disease and cancer | AJCN | Review | 1 | 24 |
| Rimm, 1993 [26] | Vitamin E consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease in men | NEJM | OBS | 3 | 101 |
| Hodis, 1995 [100] | Serial coronary angiographic evidence that antioxidant vitamin intake reduces progression of coronary artery atherosclerosis | JAMA | OBS | 3 | 21 |
| Stephens, 1996 [56] | Randomized controlled trial of vitamin E in patients with coronary disease: Cambridge Heart Antioxidant Study (CHAOS) | Lancet | RCT | 4 | 70 |
| Ogunyankin, 1996 [101] | Vitamin E and coronary heart disease | Lancet | Letter | 1 | 1 |
| Rapola, 1997 [9] | Randomized trial of alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene supplements on incidence of major coronary events in men with previous myocardial infarction | Lancet | RCT | 7 | 22 |
| Leppala, 2000 [102] | Controlled trial of alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene supplements on stroke incidence and mortality in male smokers | Arterio-scler Thromb Vasc Biol | RCT | 6 | 8 |
| Boaz, 2000 [57] | Secondary prevention with antioxidants of cardiovascular disease in end-stage renal disease: randomized placebo-controlled trial | Lancet | RCT | 4 | 15 |
| Muntwyler, 2002 [103] | Vitamin supplement use in a low-risk population of US male physicians and subsequent cardiovascular mortality | Arch Intern Med | OBS | 11 | 4 |
| Satia-About, 2003 [104] | Dietary supplement use and medical conditions: the VITAL study | Am J Prev Med | OBS | 5 | 1 |
| Miller, 2005 [105] | Meta-analysis: high-dosage vitamin E supplementation may increase all-cause mortality | Ann Intern Med | SR/MA | 11 | 17 |
| Lee, 2005 [61] | Vitamin E in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer: the Women’s Health Study: a randomized controlled trial | JAMA | RCT | 19 | 7 |
| Bardia, 2008 [106] | Efficacy of antioxidant supplementation in reducing primary cancer incidence and mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis | Mayo Clin Proc | SR/MA | 13 | 2 |
| Bjelakovic, 2008 [107] | Antioxidant supplements for prevention of mortality in healthy participants and patients with various diseases | Cochrane Database Syst Rev | SR/MA | 92 | 2 |
| Sesso, 2008 [10] | Vitamins E and C in the prevention of cardiovascular disease in men: the Physicians’ Health Study II randomized controlled trial | JAMA | RCT | 23 | 1 |
| Lin, 2009 [108] | Vitamins C and E and beta-carotene supplementation and cancer risk: a randomized controlled trial | JNCI | RCT | 7 | 1 |
| Pocobelli, 2009 [72] | Use of supplements of multivitamins, vitamin C, and vitamin E in relation to mortality | Am J Epidemiol | OBS | 15 | 0 |
Abbreviations: AJCN, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition; JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association; JNCI, Journal of the national Cancer Institute; Lab, laboratory study; OBS, observational study; RCT, randomized controlled trial; SR/MA, systematic review/meta-analysis.
a
The counts in the last two columns refer to references made to other articles in the corpus and citations received from other articles in the corpus, respectively.