No adequate evidence indicating hypertension as an independent risk factor for COVID-19 severity.

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.

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.

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Arterial hypertension - Clinical trials update 2021.Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD · 2022
   Review
2. Effect of Underlying Cardiovascular Disease on the Prognosis of COVID-19 Patients; a Sex and Age-Dependent Analysis.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2021
   Article
3. The mystery of "missing" visits in an emergency cardiology department, in the era of COVID-19.; a time-series analysis in a tertiary Greek General Hospital.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2020
   Observational
4. Disturbing effect of lockdown for COVID-19 on the incidence of infective endocarditis: a word of caution.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2020
   Article
5. Management recommendations for patients with chronic kidney disease during the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic.Chronic diseases and translational medicine · 2020
   Article
6. The Impact of Obesity and Lifestyle on the Immune System and Susceptibility to Infections Such as COVID-19.Frontiers in nutrition · 2020
   Review

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection?2020
• Comment on
  Genetically determined intelligence and coronary artery disease risk.2021

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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