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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2017

Benchmarking life expectancy and cancer mortality: global comparison with cardiovascular disease 1981-2010.

Bochen Cao, Freddie Bray, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Ophira Ginsburg, Samir Soneji, Isabelle Soerjomataram

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In one paragraph

Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Bochen CaoSection of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon CEDEX 08, France CaoB@fellows.iarc.fr.
Freddie BraySection of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon CEDEX 08, France.
Hiram Beltrán-SánchezFielding School of Public Health and California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Ophira GinsburgLaura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Samir SonejiDartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
Isabelle SoerjomataramSection of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon CEDEX 08, France.
Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer · FRDartmouth College · USNYU Langone Health · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BenchmarkingGlobal HealthAdultAgedAged, 80 and overCardiovascular DiseasesFemaleHumansLife ExpectancyMaleMiddle AgedMortality, PrematureNeoplasmsRetrospective Studies

Identifiers

PMID28637656
PMCPMC5477919
OpenAlexW2636469771

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