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ArticleJournal of hepatology2020

Non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases in patients with COVID-19: A retrospective study.

Dong Ji, Enqiang Qin, Jing Xu, Dawei Zhang, Gregory Cheng, Yudong Wang, George Lau

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Article in Journal of hepatology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 334 papers, 11 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

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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

334 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  7. Mendelian Randomization Analysis Reveals No Causal Relationship Between Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Severe COVID-19.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Dong JiThe Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100039, China.
Enqiang QinThe Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100039, China.
Jing XuFuyang Second People's Hospital, Fuyang, Anhui 23600, China.
Dawei ZhangThe Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100039, China.
Gregory ChengHumanity and Health Clinical Trial Center, Humanity & Health Medical Group, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Yudong WangHumanity and Health Clinical Trial Center, Humanity & Health Medical Group, Hong Kong SAR, China.
George LauThe Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100039, China; Humanity and Health Clinical Trial Center, Humanity & Health Medical Group, Hong Kong SAR, China. Electronic address: gkklau@hnhmgl.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultAgedAge FactorsBetacoronavirusBody Mass IndexCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Disease ProgressionFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMaleMiddle AgedNon-alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseasePandemicsPneumonia, Viral

Identifiers

PMID32278005
PMCPMC7141624

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