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ArticleBritish journal of sports medicine2018

Physical activity and longevity: how to move closer to causal inference.

Kaitlin H Wade, Rebecca C Richmond, George Davey Smith

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Article in British journal of sports medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Genetic variants related to physical activity or sedentary behaviour: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021
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  14. Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Cancer Risk Among Older Adults: A Cohort Study.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes · 2020
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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

3 authors.

Kaitlin H WadeMedical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Rebecca C RichmondMedical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
George Davey SmithMedical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_12013/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

ExerciseLongevityCausalityHumansMortalityphysical activity

Identifiers

PMID29545236
PMCPMC6047155

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