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ReviewCurrent osteoporosis reports2003

Role of cytokines in postmenopausal bone loss.

Johannes Pfeilschifter

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Review in Current osteoporosis reports, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing 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

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Osteoporosis and Periodontitis.Current osteoporosis reports · 2016
    Review
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  11. Hepatic osteodystrophy and liver cirrhosis.World journal of gastroenterology · 2010
    Article
  12. Osteoporosis, inflammation and ageing.Immunity & ageing : I & A · 2005
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Johannes PfeilschifterBerufsgenossenschaftliche Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Department of Medicine, University of Bochum, Bürkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1, D-44789 Bochum, Germany. Johannes.Pfeilschifter@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is increasingly recognized that changes in cytokine activity are involved in the pathophysiology of postmenopausal bone loss in many ways. Estrogen may affect skeletal cytokine activity by diverse mechanisms such as direct interference with cytokine gene transcription, regulation of major signaling molecules, changes in lymphocyte function, and central effects on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. This article summarizes our current knowledge of these interactions and discusses the possible implications with respect to the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis.

Indexed as

AgedBiomarkersCytokinesDisease ProgressionFemaleHumansMiddle AgedOsteoporosis, PostmenopausalPostmenopausePrognosisSensitivity and SpecificitySeverity of Illness IndexBiomarkersCytokines

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