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ArticleJAMA ophthalmology2016

Myopia-The Silent Epidemic That Should Not Be Ignored.

Jacqueline Chua, Tien Yin Wong

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Article in JAMA ophthalmology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Retardation of myopia by atropine regimes.International journal of ophthalmology · 2024
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  6. The Prevalence of Myopia in Children in Spain: An Updated Study in 2020.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  11. Myopia prevalence and risk factors in children.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jacqueline ChuaSingapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore2Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
Tien Yin WongSingapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore2Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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MyopiaHumans

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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.