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ArticleObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2020

There is a Relationship Between Obesity and Coronavirus Disease 2019 but More Information is Needed.

Silvio Buscemi, Carola Buscemi, John A Batsis

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Article in Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing 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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Overweight: A risk factor for COVID-19 --- A medical conundrum or a reality?Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2021
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  6. Population pharmacokinetics of lopinavir/ritonavir in Covid-19 patients.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Silvio BuscemiUnit of Clinical Nutrition, Policlinico University Hospital, Palermo, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0730-7649
Carola BuscemiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Postgraduate Program in Geriatrics, School of Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4245-8373
John A BatsisSection of General Internal Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0845-4416

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansObesitySARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32397007
PMCPMC7272811

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