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ArticleJournal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle2018

Comment on: "Pitfalls in the measurement of muscle mass: a need for a reference standard" by Buckinx et al.

Brian C Clark, Dallin Tavoian, Bret H Goodpaster, Peggy M Cawthon, Ross D Hansen, Todd M Manini

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Article in Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing 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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Brian C ClarkOhio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI), Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA.
Dallin TavoianOhio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI), Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA.
Bret H GoodpasterTranslational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes, Florida Hospital and the Center for Metabolic Origins of Disease, Florida Hospital Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes, Orlando, FL.
Peggy M CawthonResearch Institute, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Ross D HansenNeurogastroenterology Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia.
Todd M ManiniInstitute on Aging, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Muscular DiseasesSarcopeniaAbsorptiometry, PhotonHumansdual-energy x-ray absorptiometrymeasurementmethodsmusclesarcopeniastandard

Identifiers

PMID30680964
PMCPMC6351671

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