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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2008

Artificially low HbA1c associated with treatment with ribavirin.

Michael Robertson

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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 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing 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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
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  4. The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test: 100 Years Later.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2020
    Review
  5. Drug-Induced Falsely Low A1C: Report of a Case Series From a Diabetes Clinic.Clinical diabetes : a publication of the American Diabetes Association · 2018
    Article
  6. Drugs affecting HbA1c levels.Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism · 2012
    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

1 author.

Michael RobertsonMarcham Road Health Centre, Abingdon OX14 1DB. Michael.robertson@gp-k84041.nhs.uk

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsDiabetes MellitusGlycated HemoglobinHepatitis C, ChronicHumansHypoglycemic AgentsMaleMetforminMiddle AgedRibavirinAntiviral AgentsGlycated HemoglobinHypoglycemic AgentsMetforminRibavirin

Identifiers

PMID18310007
PMCPMC2258396

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