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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Inflammation correlates with symptoms in chronic fatigue syndrome.

Anthony L Komaroff

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Anthony L KomaroffDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 komaroff@hms.harvard.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Fatigue Syndrome, ChronicInflammationFatigueHumans

Identifiers

PMID28811366
PMCPMC5576849

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