Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29661803›Full record

ArticleGut2019

Proton pump inhibitors and risk of gastric cancer in a case-control study.

Shih-Wei Lai, Hsueh-Chou Lai, Cheng-Li Lin, Kuan-Fu Liao

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Article in Gut, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 5 of them syntheses that 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  11. Multiple metachronous foveolar-type gastric adenomas in a Helicobacter pylori-naïve patient with long-term use of a proton pump inhibitor: a case report.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2025
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  16. Tumor suppressor ATP4B serve as a promising biomarker for worsening of gastric atrophy and poor differentiation.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Shih-Wei Lai *College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Hsueh-Chou Lai *College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Cheng-Li LinCollege of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Kuan-Fu LiaoCollege of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Ulcer AgentsHelicobacter pyloriStomach NeoplasmsCase-Control StudiesHumansProton Pump InhibitorsAnti-Ulcer AgentsProton Pump Inhibitorscase-controlgastric cancerproton pump inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID29661803

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