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ArticleJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)2017

The pursuit of accurate blood pressure measurement: A 35-year travail.

Eoin O'Brien, George S Stergiou

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Article in Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 5 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  15. The quest for accuracy of blood pressure measuring devices.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2018
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  16. Accurate blood pressure measuring devices: Influencing users in the 21st century.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2018
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  17. Validation protocols for blood pressure measuring devices in the 21st century.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2018
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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.

Eoin O'BrienThe Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-5417-7977
George S StergiouHypertension Center STRIDE-7, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Blood Pressure DeterminationEquipment and SuppliesHumansHypertensionValidation Studies as Topic

Identifiers

PMID28429879
PMCPMC8031079

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