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ArticleObesity surgery2017

Letter to the Editor: Vagal Blocking (vBloc) Therapy: a New Era of Clinical Therapy for Extreme Obesity : Re: Apovian et al. Two-Year Outcomes of Vagal Nerve Blocking (vBloc) for the Treatment of Obesity in the ReCharge Trial. Obesity Surgery. 2016.

Shannon K Boi, Justin X Moore, Kendra J Royston, Wendy Demark-Wahnefried

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Article in Obesity surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Shannon K BoiUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. sboi@uab.edu.
Justin X MooreUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Kendra J RoystonUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Wendy Demark-WahnefriedUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Funding

Cancer Prevention & Control Training ProgramR25CA047888 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI DEMARK-WAHNEFRIED, WENDY, MENESES, KAREN M · 1988 to 2016
$11.2M
NCI NIH HHS R25 CA047888
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

ObesityObesity, MorbidBariatric SurgeryHumansVagus Nerve

Identifiers

PMID27933506
PMCPMC5239744

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