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ArticleKidney international reports2017

Bariatric Surgery and Kidney-Related Outcomes.

Alex R Chang, Morgan E Grams, Sankar D Navaneethan

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Article in Kidney international reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
85citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
14.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

85 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 146 citations in OpenAlex.

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25 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Alex R ChangKidney Health Research Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA.
Morgan E GramsWelch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Sankar D NavaneethanSelzman Institute for Kidney Health, Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Baylor College of Medicine · USGeisinger Health System · USJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Morbid Obesity, Bariatric Surgery, and Kidney FunctionK23DK106515 · NIDDK · GEISINGER CLINIC · PI CHANG, ALEXANDER R · 2015 to 2019
$890k
The comparative effectiveness of kidney transplantation in advanced CKDK08DK092287 · NIDDK · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GRAMS, MORGAN ERIKA · 2012 to 2016
$793k
NIDDK NIH HHS K08 DK092287NIDDK NIH HHS K23 DK106515
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prevalence of severe obesity in both the general and the chronic kidney disease (CKD) populations continues to rise, with more than one-fifth of CKD patients in the United States having a body mass index of ≥35 kg/m

Indexed as

bariatric surgeryglomerular filtration ratekidneymorbid obesityobesity

Identifiers

PMID28439568
PMCPMC5399773
OpenAlexW2581895415

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