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ArticleBiomarkers in medicine2020

Cardiovascular disease as a biomarker for an increased risk of COVID-19 infection and related poor prognosis.

Nicola Ielapi, Noemi Licastro, Michele Provenzano, Michele Andreucci, Stefano de Franciscis, Raffaele Serra

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Article in Biomarkers in medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicola IelapiInteruniversity Center of Phlebolymphology (CIFL), International Research & Educational Program in Clinical & Experimental Biotechnology at the Department of Medical & Surgical Sciences University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Viale Europa, Catanzaro 88100, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1011-9844
Noemi LicastroInteruniversity Center of Phlebolymphology (CIFL), International Research & Educational Program in Clinical & Experimental Biotechnology at the Department of Medical & Surgical Sciences University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Viale Europa, Catanzaro 88100, Italy.
Michele ProvenzanoInteruniversity Center of Phlebolymphology (CIFL), International Research & Educational Program in Clinical & Experimental Biotechnology at the Department of Medical & Surgical Sciences University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Viale Europa, Catanzaro 88100, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2168-702X
Michele AndreucciInteruniversity Center of Phlebolymphology (CIFL), International Research & Educational Program in Clinical & Experimental Biotechnology at the Department of Medical & Surgical Sciences University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Viale Europa, Catanzaro 88100, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7974-3792
Stefano de FranciscisInteruniversity Center of Phlebolymphology (CIFL), International Research & Educational Program in Clinical & Experimental Biotechnology at the Department of Medical & Surgical Sciences University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Viale Europa, Catanzaro 88100, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9365-4609
Raffaele SerraInteruniversity Center of Phlebolymphology (CIFL), International Research & Educational Program in Clinical & Experimental Biotechnology at the Department of Medical & Surgical Sciences University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Viale Europa, Catanzaro 88100, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4477-7412
Magna Graecia University · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCardiovascular DiseasesCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansInflammation MediatorsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralPrognosisRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2Inflammation Mediators2019-nCovcardiovascular diseaseCOVID-19heartinfectionvascular

Identifiers

PMID32426991
PMCPMC7236792
OpenAlexW3025569529

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Registered trials

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