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ArticleGut2007

Chronic subclinical bowel inflammation may explain increased risk of colorectal cancer in obese people.

Biku J John, Al Mutaz Abulafi, Andrew Poullis, Michael Anthony Mendall

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Article in Gut, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing 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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. The risk of colonic adenomas and colonic cancer in obesity.Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology · 2014
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  12. Association of inflammatory markers with colorectal cancer incidence in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Biku J John
Al Mutaz Abulafi
Andrew Poullis
Michael Anthony Mendall

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AgedChronic DiseaseColorectal NeoplasmsFecesHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesLeukocyte L1 Antigen ComplexMiddle AgedObesityLeukocyte L1 Antigen Complex

Identifiers

PMID17566047
PMCPMC1994343

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Registered trials

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