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Trial reportClinical rheumatology2007

The effect of the thermal mineral water of Nagybaracska on patients with knee joint osteoarthritis--a double blind study.

Géza P Bálint, W Watson Buchanan, András Adám, István Ratkó, László Poór, Péter V Bálint, Eva Somos, Ildikó Tefner, Tamás Bender

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Clinical rheumatology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 9 pooled it
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Challenges of blinding in clinical balneology trials: a scoping review.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Géza P BálintNational Institute of Rheumatology and Physiotherapy, 25-29 Frankel L St, Budapest, 1023, Hungary. balintg@mail.datanet.hu
W Watson Buchanan
András Adám
István Ratkó
László Poór
Péter V Bálint
Eva Somos
Ildikó Tefner
Tamás Bender
Eötvös József Főiskola · HUInstitute of Rheumatology · CZNational Institute of Oncology · HUHospital of the Brothers of St. John of God · ATMcMaster University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To study the effect of thermal mineral water of Nagybaracska (Hungary) on patients with primary knee osteoarthritis in a randomized, double-blind clinical trial, 64 patients with nonsurgical knee joint osteoarthritis were randomly selected either into the thermal mineral water or into the tap water group in a non-spa resort village. The patients of both groups received 30-min sessions of bathing, 5 days a week for four consecutive weeks. The patients were evaluated by a blind observer immediately before and at the end of the trial using Western Ontario and McMaster Osteoarthritis (WOMAC) indices and follow-up assessment 3 months later. Twenty-seven patients of the 32 patients who received thermal mineral water and 25 of the 32 of those treated with tap water completed the trial. The WOMAC activity, pain, and total scores improved significantly in the thermal mineral-water-treated group. The improvement remained also at the end of the 3-month follow-up. The WOMAC activity, pain, and total scores improved significantly also in the tap water group at the end of the treatment course, but no improvement was detected at the end of the 3-month follow-up period. The treatment with the thermal mineral water of Nagybaracska significantly improved activity, pain, and total WOMAC scores of patients with nonsurgical OA of the knee. Even after 3 months, significant improvement was observed compared to the scores before the treatment or to tap water treatment.

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BalneologyPhysical Therapy ModalitiesAgedDouble-Blind MethodFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMineral WatersOsteoarthritis, KneePain MeasurementSeverity of Illness IndexTreatment OutcomeMineral Waters

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PMID17089219
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