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ReviewSSM - population health2018

Selection

Tim A Bruckner, Ralph Catalano

Erratum issuedAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in SSM - population health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 54 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed
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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

54 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Abortion Ban and the Next Generation's Family Formation Decisions: Evidence from Romania.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2026
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  7. In Utero Selection Echoes Across a Lifetime: Evidence From Historical Utah Populations.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2026
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  12. Secondary Sex Ratio in the Face of Global Challenges: Beyond the Headlines.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
    Review
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  18. The Secondary Sex Ratio and Male Mortality at Pre-Reproductive Ages: A Test of Selection In Utero.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025
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  19. Vanishing twins, selectionEvolution, medicine, and public health · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tim A BrucknerProgram in Public Health, University of California, Irvine, 653 E. Peltason Dr. Suite 2046, 2nd Floor, Irvine, CA 92697-3957, USA.
Ralph CatalanoSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 15 University Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public health researchers may assume, based on the fetal origins literature, that "scarring" of birth cohorts describes the population response to modern-day stressors. We contend, based on extensive literature concerned with selection

Indexed as

Cohort selectionEvolutionary theoryLife course healthPopulation stressorsPregnancy lossReproductive suppression

Identifiers

PMID29928686
PMCPMC6008283

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