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ArticlePharmacological research2020

Mortality in COVID-19 patients treated with ACEIs/ARBs: Re-estimated meta-analysis results following the Mehra et al. retraction.

Ahmad Alamer, Ivo Abraham

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In one paragraph

Article in Pharmacological research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

7 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.

Ahmad AlamerCenter for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, Saudi Arabia.
Ivo AbrahamCenter for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine ? Tucson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. Electronic address: abraham@pharmacy.arizona.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID32619721
PMCPMC7326447

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