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ArticleBMC public health2018

Letter to editor: careful literature search and exact data extraction are milestones of a meta-analysis: the case of dairy consumption and hip fracture.

Hanieh Malmir, Ahmad Esmaillzadeh

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Article in BMC public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Hanieh MalmirStudents' Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9628-6933
Ahmad EsmaillzadehObesity and Eating Habits Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Molecular Cellular Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. a-esmaillzadeh@tums.ac.ir.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a recent issue of the BMC Public Health journal, Bian et al. described the results of an interesting meta-analysis on the association between dairy products consumption and risk of hip fracture. Although the results are important and valuable, some critical points should be noticed in the explanation of these findings. We prepared these critical points in a letter to the editor and hope to be an interest of you.

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Dairy ProductsDietHip FracturesHumansMeta-Analysis as TopicRiskDairyHip fractureLetterMeta-analysisMilk

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