Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29912016›Full record

ArticleEpidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)2018

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Jean Joel Bigna, Jobert Richie Nansseu, Arnaud D Kaze, Jean Jacques Noubiap

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Article in Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Pooled it
  4. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jean Joel BignaSchool of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris Sud XI, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon Department of Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus, Baltimore, Maryland Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, noubiapjj@yahoo.fr.
Jobert Richie Nansseu
Arnaud D Kaze
Jean Jacques Noubiap

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Diabetes MellitusPrediabetic StateAdultAgingAuthorshipBiomedical ResearchCross-Sectional StudiesHIVHIV InfectionsHumansIncidenceInsurance, HealthMeta-Analysis as TopicPeriodicals as TopicRiskRisk Factors

Identifiers

PMID29912016

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.