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ArticleBariatric surgical practice and patient care2018

Surgical Treatment of Obesity in Latinos and African Americans: Future Directions and Recommendations to Reduce Disparities in Bariatric Surgery.

Emily Daviau Smith, Brian T Layden, Chandra Hassan, Lisa Sanchez-Johnsen

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Article in Bariatric surgical practice and patient care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. A population based study of bariatric surgery in Illinois.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2025
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  8. Barriers and enablers to effective weight management for people living with overweight and obesity: A rapid scoping review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Emily Daviau SmithDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Brian T LaydenDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Chandra HassanDepartment of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Lisa Sanchez-JohnsenDepartment of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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African Americans/blacksdisparitiesHispanics/Latinos

Identifiers

PMID32612896
PMCPMC7325708

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