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ArticleAdvances in therapy2020

Warning Against the Use of Anti-Inflammatory Medicines to Cure COVID-19: Building Castles in the Air.

Giustino Varrassi

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Article in Advances in therapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Updates on Palliative Medicine in the COVID-19 Era.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022
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  4. Review
  5. Analgesic Drugs and COVID-19.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021
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  6. Article
  7. Management of Osteoarthritis During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2020
    Review
  8. NSAIDs for analgesia in the era of COVID-19.Regional anesthesia and pain medicine · 2020
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  9. Review
  10. Article
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  13. The concern about ACE/ARB and COVID-19: Time to hold your horses!Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Giustino VarrassiPaolo Procacci Foundation, via Tacito 7, 00193, Rome, Italy. giuvarr@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Diabetes MellitusHypertensionAnti-Inflammatory AgentsBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Anti-Inflammatory AgentsAnti-inflammatory medicinesCOVID-19NSAIDs

Identifiers

PMID32239459
PMCPMC7110984

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Registered trials

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