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ArticleMedical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre2017

Use of Statins and Risk of Reducing Glaucoma: Is There a Link?

Zhilong Xiao, Xian Gong

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Article in Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre, 2017. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 85% 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, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhilong XiaoDepartment of Neurology, The Third Hospital of Nanchang, Nanchang City, China.
Xian Gong
Third Hospital of Nanchang · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

GlaucomaHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsHyperlipidemiasRisk FactorsHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID27816977
PMCPMC5588384
OpenAlexW2548251369

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Registered trials

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