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SynthesisArchives of endocrinology and metabolism

Type 2 diabetes as a major risk factor for COVID-19 severity: a meta-analysis.

Lana C Pinto, Marcello C Bertoluci

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Synthesis in Archives of endocrinology and metabolism. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing 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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Diabetes and COVID-19 in Congolese patients.African health sciences · 2021
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  12. Management of diabetes in patients with COVID-19 - Authors' reply.The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lana C PintoDepartamento de Emergência, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.ORCID 0000-0003-0954-8622
Marcello C BertoluciServiço de Endocrinologia, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.ORCID 0000-0002-8307-3162

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Pneumonia, ViralCOVID-19HumansPandemicsRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2Severity of Illness Index

Identifiers

PMID32555985
PMCPMC10522215

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