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ArticleBMC medicine2016

Alcohol and stroke: the splitters win again.

Arthur L Klatsky, H Nicole Tran

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Article in BMC medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. The safety and efficacy of tPA intravenous thrombolysis for treating acute ischemic stroke patients with a history of cerebral hemorrhage.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Arthur L KlatskyDivision of Research, Northern California Kaiser Permanente, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA, 94612, USA. hartmavn@pacbell.net.
H Nicole TranDepartment of Medicine, Oakland Medical Center, Northern California Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Study of the relationships of alcohol drinking and risk of stroke can readily become mired in the labyrinthine interactions of drinking categorizations, non-linear associations, disparate cardiovascular conditions, and the heterogeneous types of stroke. This Commentary discusses the recent article by Larsson et al. (BMC Medicine 14:178, 2016). The authors split their material into separate meta-analyses of subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, and ischemic stroke, finding disparate alcohol-stroke relationships. Our Commentary pursues the disparity theme, using the lumpers versus splitters paradigm to explore several aspects of this complex area.Please see related article: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0721-4 .

Indexed as

Cerebral HemorrhageStrokeAlcohol DrinkingHumansRiskRisk FactorsAlcohol drinkingConfoundingEpidemiologyHemorrhagic strokeIschemic strokeNon-linear curvesRisk factorsStroke

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PMID27881133
PMCPMC5121971

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