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ArticleThe Journal of infection2020

Age but not sex may explain the negative effect of arterial hypertension and diabetes on COVID-19 prognosis.

Carlos J Pirola, Silvia Sookoian

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Article in The Journal of infection, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 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

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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Carlos J PirolaUniversity of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, Institute of Medical Research A Lanari, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)-University of Buenos Aires, Institute of Medical Research (IDIM), Department of Molecular Genetics and Biology of Complex Diseases, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Electronic address: pirola.carlos@conicet.gov.ar.
Silvia SookoianUniversity of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, Institute of Medical Research A Lanari, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)-University of Buenos Aires, Institute of Medical Research (IDIM), Department of Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Electronic address: ssookoian@intramed.net.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsDiabetes MellitusHypertensionPandemicsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansPrognosisRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2cardiovascular diseaseCOVID-19diabeteshypertensionprognosis

Identifiers

PMID32407757
PMCPMC7212962

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