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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.

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.

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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6. The effect of body mass index at diagnosis on survival of patients with squamous cell head and neck carcinoma.American journal of cancer research · 2024
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7. Body mass index and death by cognitive impairment.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2023
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8. Body mass index versus surrogate measures of central adiposity as independent predictors of mortality in type 2 diabetes.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2022
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9. Sex differences in overweight and obesity among Mexican Americans in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: A comparison of measures.SSM - population health · 2022
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10. The associations between relative and absolute body mass index with mortality rate based on predictions from stigma theory.SSM - population health · 2022
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11. Estimating the influence of body mass index (BMI) on mortality using offspring BMI as an instrumental variable.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022
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12. Sugar-Induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance Are Uncoupled from Shortened Survival in Drosophila.Cell metabolism · 2020
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13. Body mass index and peripheral artery disease.Atherosclerosis · 2020
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14. How do age and major risk factors for mortality interact over the life-course? Implications for health disparities research and public health policy.SSM - population health · 2019
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15. Waist Circumference and All-Cause Mortality among Older Adults in Rural Indonesia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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16. "Big men" in the office: The gender-specific influence of weight upon persuasiveness.PloS one · 2019
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17. Association of BMI with overall and cause-specific mortality: a population-based cohort study of 3·6 million adults in the UK.The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology · 2018
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18. Confounding by ill health in the observed association between BMI and mortality: evidence from the HUNT Study using offspring BMI as an instrument.International journal of epidemiology · 2018
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19. 'The obesity paradox': a reconsideration of obesity and the risk of preterm birth.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2017
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20. Central adiposity and the overweight risk paradox in aging: follow-up of 130,473 UK Biobank participants.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2017
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Corrections and comments

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  Association of all-cause mortality with overweight and obesity using standard body mass index categories: a systematic review and meta-analysis.2013

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