Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27390304›Full record

ArticleGut2016

Diagnostic accuracy of the γ-glutamyl transpeptidase to platelet ratio to predict liver fibrosis in Egyptian patients with HCV genotype 4.

Yusuke Shimakawa, Philippe Bonnard, Mohamed El Kassas, Mohamed Abdel-Hamid, Gamal Esmat, Arnaud Fontanet

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Article in Gut, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Yusuke ShimakawaUnité d'Épidémiologie des Maladies Émergentes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Philippe BonnardInfectious Diseases, Hôpital Tenon (AP-HP), Paris, France.
Mohamed El KassasEndemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.
Mohamed Abdel-HamidDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, El Minia, Egypt Viral Hepatitis Research Laboratory, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt.
Gamal EsmatEndemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Arnaud FontanetUnité d'Épidémiologie des Maladies Émergentes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Département d'Infection et Epidémiologie, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France.
Institut Pasteur · FRAssistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris · FRCairo University · EGHelwan University · EGNational Water Research Center · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Blood Plateletsgamma-GlutamyltransferaseEgyptGenotypeHepatitis CHepatitis C, ChronicHumansLiver CirrhosisPlatelet Countgamma-GlutamyltransferaseFIBROSISHEPATITIS C

Identifiers

PMID27390304
OpenAlexW2470577167

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.