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ArticleAutoimmunity reviews2020

Why judiciously timed anti-IL 6 therapy may be of benefit in severe COVID-19 infection.

Louise Cunningham, Ian Kimber, David Arthur Basketter, John Paul McFadden

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

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13citing papers in PubMed
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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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Covid-19 and autoimmunity.Autoimmunity reviews · 2020
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  10. Allergo Journal : interdisziplinare Zeitschrift fur Allergologie und Umweltmedizin : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Allergie- und Immunitatsforschung · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Louise CunninghamSt. John's Institute of Dermatology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK. Electronic address: louise.cunningham@gstt.nhs.uk.
Ian KimberFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, UK.
David Arthur BasketterDABMEB Consultancy Ltd, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, UK.
John Paul McFaddenSt. John's Institute of Dermatology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Interleukin-6Macrophage Activation SyndromeBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19CytokinesHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2CytokinesInterleukin-6COVID-19Cytokine stormIL-6Interleukin-6Macrophage activation syndromeNatural killer cellsPerforinSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32380318
PMCPMC7198409

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