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ReviewPostgraduate medical journal2006

Clinical outcome of patients with Helicobacter pylori infection: the bug, the host, or the environment?

S N Sgouros, C Bergele

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Review in Postgraduate medical journal, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing 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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Epidemiological Characteristics ofDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Article
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  3. Helicobacter pylori as an oncogenic pathogen, revisited.Expert reviews in molecular medicine · 2017
    Review
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  7. Helicobacter pylori eradication in nonulcer dyspepsia: does it really matter?Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association · 2008
    Article
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

2 authors.

S N SgourosDepartment of Gastroenterology, Athens Naval and Veterans Hospital, Athens, Greece. spisgon@otenet.gr
C Bergele

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is well established that only a minority of patients with Helicobacter pylori infection develop severe inflammation leading to peptic ulcer or gastric cancer. Recent evidence suggests that the virulence factors of the organism do not seem crucial in the progression of inflammation towards a more severe disease. It seems probable that other host derived and environmental factors are more significant in determining clinical outcome but additional studies are needed to clarify the underlying mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of infection.

Indexed as

Helicobacter InfectionsEnvironmentGastritisHelicobacter pyloriHumansStomach Neoplasms

Identifiers

PMID16679473
PMCPMC2563779

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