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ArticleGut2019

Patients with colorectal cancer have identical strains of

Yasuhiko Komiya, Yumi Shimomura, Takuma Higurashi, Yutaka Sugi, Jun Arimoto, Shotaro Umezawa, Shiori Uchiyama, Mitsuharu Matsumoto, Atsushi Nakajima

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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 215 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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215citing papers in PubMed, 5 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Yasuhiko KomiyaDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1535-9262
Yumi ShimomuraDairy Science and Technology Institute, Kyodo Milk Industry Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
Takuma HigurashiDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
Yutaka SugiDairy Science and Technology Institute, Kyodo Milk Industry Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
Jun ArimotoDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
Shotaro UmezawaDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
Shiori UchiyamaDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
Mitsuharu MatsumotoDairy Science and Technology Institute, Kyodo Milk Industry Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
Atsushi NakajimaDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Colorectal NeoplasmsMicrobiotaFusobacterium nucleatumHumansMouthcolorectal cancerintestinal bacteria

Identifiers

PMID29934439
PMCPMC6582823

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