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ReviewAndrology2017

Adjusting for abstinence time in semen analyses: some considerations.

K A Michels, K Kim, E H Yeung, T C Plowden, E N Chaljub, Y-L Lu, S L Mumford

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Review in Andrology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Ambient air pollution and semen quality.Environmental research · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

K A MichelsEpidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2431-2079
K KimEpidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA.
E H YeungEpidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA.
T C PlowdenEpidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA.
E N ChaljubEpidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Y-L LuDivision of Library Services, Office of Research Services, National Institutes of Health Library, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
S L MumfordEpidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Funding

Folic Acid and Zinc Supplementation TrialZIAHD008943 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI PERKINS, NEIL · 2014 to 2025
$5.0M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 HD999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Semen AnalysisSexual AbstinenceHumansMaleSpecimen Handling

Identifiers

PMID27860459
PMCPMC5164957

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