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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2015

Editorial commentary: immunodeficiency at start of antiretroviral therapy: the persistent problem of late presentation to care.

Nathan Ford, Edward J Mills, Matthias Egger

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing 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

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Nationwide Cohort Study of Antiretroviral Therapy Timing: Treatment Dropout and Virological Failure in China, 2011-2015.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019
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  12. Barriers to HIV remission research in low- and middle-income countries.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2017
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  16. Reply to Okatch et al.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2016
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  17. CD4 Cell Counts at Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation in Botswana Have Been Increasing.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nathan FordDepartment of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Edward J MillsGlobal Evaluative Sciences, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada School of Public Health, University of Rwanda, Kigali.
Matthias EggerCentre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa IeDEA Data Centers, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CD4 Lymphocyte CountFemaleHIV InfectionsHumansMaleantiretroviral therapyCD4ecological biasimmunodeficiencylate presentation

Identifiers

PMID25516184
PMCPMC4357289

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