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ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2017

High Ethanol Contents of Spirit Drinks in Kibera Slums, Kenya: Implications for Public Health.

Alex O Okaru, Kennedy O Abuga, Isaac O Kibwage, Dirk W Lachenmeier

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Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Alex O OkaruDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi P.O. Box 19676-00202, Kenya. alex.okaru@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-9419-1300
Kennedy O AbugaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi P.O. Box 19676-00202, Kenya. koabuga@uonbi.ac.ke.ORCID 0000-0002-5395-7522
Isaac O KibwageDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi P.O. Box 19676-00202, Kenya. okibwage@uonbi.ac.ke.
Dirk W LachenmeierChemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt (CVUA) Karlsruhe, Weissenburger Straße 3, 76187 Karlsruhe, Germany. lachenmeier@web.de.ORCID 0000-0002-3115-864X
University of Nairobi · KEChemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt Karlsruhe · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cheap licit and artisanal illicit spirit drinks have been associated with numerous outbreaks of alcohol poisoning especially with methanol. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of cheap spirit drinks in Kibera slums in Nairobi County, Kenya. The samples consisted of cheap licit spirits (

Indexed as

alcoholic strengthartisanal spiritvolatiles

Identifiers

PMID29039800
PMCPMC5664028
OpenAlexW2751093218

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