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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2008

Drugs for pre-osteoporosis: prevention or disease mongering?

Pablo Alonso-Coello, Alberto López García-Franco, Gordon Guyatt, Ray Moynihan

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Atencion primaria · 2018
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  7. Trust and willingness towards COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a mixed-method study in Ghana, 2021.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2022
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  9. Short Term Intake ofClinical nutrition research · 2020
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  10. A brief history of FRAX.Archives of osteoporosis · 2018
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  14. Evidence of effectiveness of a fracture liaison service to reduce the re-fracture rate.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2016
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  15. Quaternary prevention, an answer of family doctors to overmedicalization.International journal of health policy and management · 2015
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  18. Assessment of fracture risk.Current osteoporosis reports · 2012
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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

4 authors.

Pablo Alonso-CoelloIberoamerican Cochrane Center, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, Hospital de Sant Pau, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 08041, Barcelona, Spain. palonso@santpau.es
Alberto López García-Franco
Gordon Guyatt
Ray Moynihan

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Bone Density Conservation AgentsConflict of InterestFemaleHumansMarketing of Health ServicesMeta-Analysis as TopicOsteoporosisRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsBone Density Conservation Agents

Identifiers

PMID18202066
PMCPMC2206291

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