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ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2017

Weight and Body Mass Index in Old Age: Do They Still Matter?

Tamara B Harris

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Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing 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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Adiposity Markers as Predictors of 11-Year Decline in Maximal Walking Speed in Late Midlife.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2021
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  11. Hospital Readmissions Among Post-acute Nursing Home Residents: Does Obesity Matter?Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Tamara B HarrisLaboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, Interdisciplinary Studies of Aging, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

Funding

Health, Aging and Body Composition StudyZIAAG007390 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI LAUNER, LENORE J · 2009 to 2024
$4.0M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AG999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

PostmenopauseWomen's HealthBody Mass IndexBody WeightFemaleHumansWaist Circumference

Identifiers

PMID28714125
PMCPMC5704942

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Registered trials

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