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SynthesisThe Journal of infection2020

Cardiovascular complications in COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Setor K Kunutsor, Jari A Laukkanen

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Synthesis 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 42 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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42citing papers in PubMed, 4 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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Epicardial adipose tissue in patients with and without COVID-19 infection.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2025
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  11. Cardiovascular Complications in Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19: A Cohort Study in Havana, Cuba.Cardiovascular revascularization medicine : including molecular interventions · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Setor K KunutsorNational Institute for Health Research Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Learning & Research Building (Level 1), Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK. Electronic address: skk31@cantab.net.
Jari A LaukkanenInstitute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland; Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland; Central Finland Health Care District Hospital District, Department of Medicine, Jyväskylä, Finland District, Jyväskylä, Finland.

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-19HumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralRetrospective StudiesSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32504747
PMCPMC7832225

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