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ArticleAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration2020

Atlanta metropolitan area amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) surveillance: incidence and prevalence 2009-2011 and survival characteristics through 2015.

Reshma Punjani, Laurie Wagner, Kevin Horton, Wendy Kaye

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Article in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

4 authors.

Reshma PunjaniAgency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Atlanta, GA, USA and.
Laurie WagnerMcKing Consulting Corporation, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Kevin HortonAgency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Atlanta, GA, USA and.
Wendy KayeMcKing Consulting Corporation, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal, rare, and hard to diagnose neurological disease with unknown etiology.

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Age DistributionPopulation SurveillanceSex DistributionAdolescentAdultAgedAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisAsian PeopleFemaleHispanic or LatinoHumansMaleMiddle AgedMinority GroupsPrevalenceRegistriesAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)Atlantaincidenceminority populationsNational ALS Registryprevalencesurveillancesurvival characteristics

Identifiers

PMID31795746
PMCPMC8130365

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