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ArticleIntensive care medicine2020

IL-6 may be a good biomarker for earlier detection of COVID-19 progression.

Changsong Wang, Dongsheng Fei, Xueting Li, Mingyan Zhao, Kaijiang Yu

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Article in Intensive care medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 2 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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Changsong WangDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, Heilongjiang, China.
Dongsheng FeiDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, Heilongjiang, China.
Xueting LiDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, Heilongjiang, China.
Mingyan ZhaoDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, Heilongjiang, China. lxt886@163.com.
Kaijiang YuDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, Heilongjiang, China. kaijiangyu002@163.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1176-114X

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 81571871National Natural Science Foundation of China 81770276
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusPandemicsBetacoronavirusBiomarkersChinaCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansInterleukin-6Pneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2BiomarkersInterleukin-6

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PMID32385523
PMCPMC7206216

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