The Study
Bibliometric and visualized analysis of resveratrol in anticancer investigations
This study is like a map of all the books in a library about resveratrol and cancer. It tells you which books are most popular, which authors wrote the most books, and what topics are discussed most often. But it doesn't actually do any experiments to test if resveratrol helps treat cancer. It's just describing what other people have written - like reading the table of contents of many books and noticing patterns. So this study can't prove that resveratrol actually works against cancer.
Analysis score
Maximum 5 for a narrative review.
Where the score came from
Scientists looked at all papers about resveratrol's cancer-fighting abilities published between 2003 and 2022. They found that interest in this topic grew massively over time.
Where does this study sit?
Reviews of RCTs (Meta-analyses)
Max 100Randomized Trials
Max 90Reviews of Cohort Studies
Max 85Cohort Studies
Max 72Reviews of Case-Control Studies
Max 63Case-Control Studies
Max 58Cross-Sectional & Case Series
Max 50Expert Opinion
Max 51 / 100
Quality score
Based on clinical experience or non-systematic literature reviews. The lowest level of evidence as they are most susceptible to bias and personal perspective.
Key takeaways
Summary
Based on the study abstract and findings.
- 1This shows resveratrol and cancer is a very active research area, but the study doesn't prove resveratrol treats cancer in humans.
- 21463 papers published total.
- 3Publications grew from about 7 per year in 2003 to over 140 per year in 2022 - a 20-fold increase.
Score breakdown, methodology, conflicts of interest, evidence analysis & raw study data
Publication
Journal
Food Science & Nutrition
Year
2024
Authors
Qiang Fu, Zhongqiao Lu, Ying Chang, Tiefeng Jin, Meihua Zhang
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