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ArticleNature reviews. Neurology2010

Alzheimer disease: clinical use of cholinergic drugs in Alzheimer disease.

Julie Eve Desmarais, Serge Gauthier

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Article in Nature reviews. Neurology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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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.

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  2. Multi-Target-Directed Cinnamic Acid Hybrids Targeting Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Julie Eve Desmarais
Serge Gauthier

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drugs acting on the cholinergic system can improve or worsen cognitive abilities, and their effects are particularly pronounced in frail elderly individuals and patients with alzheimer disease. Guidelines are urgently needed on the judicious use of cholinergic drugs.

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Alzheimer DiseaseCholinergic AgentsHumansPractice Patterns, Physicians'Cholinergic Agents

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