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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Opinion: Research community needs to better appreciate the value of sex-based research.

Nicole C Woitowich, Teresa K Woodruff

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Modulation of alveolar macrophages by sex as a biological variable.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2026
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  5. Assessing health in aging male and female mice: does cardiac function dictate frailty or physical resilience?The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nicole C WoitowichWomen's Health Research Institute, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611.ORCID 0000-0002-3449-2547
Teresa K WoodruffWomen's Health Research Institute, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611; tkw@northwestern.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Biomedical ResearchFemaleHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansMaleSexismWomen's Health

Identifiers

PMID30971497
PMCPMC6462069

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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.