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ArticleInfection control and hospital epidemiology2020

A potential protective role of losartan against coronavirus-induced lung damage.

Mehrdad Zeinalian, Azhar Salari-Jazi, Amin Jannesari, Hossein Khanahmad

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Article in Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Hypertension and its management in COVID-19 patients: The assorted view.International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2021
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  13. Pharmacological treatments of COVID-19.Pharmacological reports : PR · 2020
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  16. Natural and semisynthetic candidate molecules for COVID-19 prophylaxis and treatment.Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie
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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mehrdad ZeinalianDepartment of Genetics and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-1381-0582
Azhar Salari-JaziDepartment of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Amin JannesariSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Hossein KhanahmadDepartment of Genetics and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusAngiotensin II Type 1 Receptor BlockersCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansLosartanLungPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor BlockersLosartan

Identifiers

PMID32248854
PMCPMC7137531
OpenAlexW3013717839

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