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ArticlePLoS medicine2013

Assessing population aging and disability in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Malawi?

Andreas E Stuck, Lyson Tenthani, Matthias Egger

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 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.

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Andreas E StuckGeriatrics Department, University of Bern, Inselspital University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. andreas.stuck@insel.ch
Lyson Tenthani
Matthias Egger

Funding

Observational Antiretroviral Studies In Southern Africa (OASIS) CollaborationU01AI069924 · NIAID · UNIVERSITAT BERN · PI Cleophas Chimbetete, Mary-Ann Davies · 2006 to 2026
$55.9M
NIAID NIH HHS 5U01-AI069924-05NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI069924
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Activities of Daily LivingAgingDisability EvaluationHealth StatusHealth TransitionModels, StatisticalFemaleHumansMale

Identifiers

PMID23674929
PMCPMC3646716

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