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Observational studyThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2018

The Hidden Burden of

Anaclara Pincelli, Paulo A R Neves, Barbara H Lourenço, Rodrigo M Corder, Maíra B Malta, Juliana Sampaio-Silva, Rodrigo M de Souza, Marly A Cardoso, Marcia C Castro, Marcelo U Ferreira and 1 more

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Observational study in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 57 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

11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Anaclara PincelliDepartment of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Paulo A R NevesDepartment of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Barbara H LourençoDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Rodrigo M CorderDepartment of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Maíra B MaltaDepartment of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Juliana Sampaio-SilvaDepartment of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Rodrigo M de SouzaMultidisciplinary Center, Federal University of Acre, Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil.
Marly A CardosoDepartment of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Marcia C CastroDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Marcelo U FerreiraDepartment of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
For The Mina Brazil Working Group
Universidade de São Paulo · BRUniversidade Federal do Acre · BRHarvard Global Health Institute · USUniversidade Federal de São Paulo · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We measured the prevalence of malaria in pregnancy and estimated its impact on birth weight and length and maternal hemoglobin in 1,180 women from Juruá Valley, the main malaria hotspot in Brazil. Antenatal malaria episodes, 74.6% of them due to

Indexed as

Birth WeightAdolescentAdultAnemiaBody HeightBrazilDNA, ProtozoanFemaleHemoglobinsHumansInfant, NewbornMalaria, FalciparumMalaria, VivaxPlasmodium falciparumPlasmodium vivaxPregnancyDNA, ProtozoanHemoglobins

Identifiers

PMID29741155
PMCPMC6085809
OpenAlexW2801119574

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.