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ArticleThe lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology2020

Obesity and COVID-19: a call for action from people living with obesity.

S Le Brocq, K Clare, M Bryant, K Roberts, A A Tahrani, writing group form Obesity UK, Obesity Empowerment Network, UK Association for the Study of Obesity

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Article in The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

  1. Pooled it
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  11. Shame anxiety, stigma and clinical encounters.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2022
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  13. Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on bariatric surgery in North America: a retrospective analysis of 834,647 patients.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

S Le BrocqObesity UK, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
K ClareObesity UK, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Obesity Empowerment Network, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
M BryantAssociation for the Study of Obesity, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Department of Health Sciences and the Hull York Medical School, University of York, York, UK.
K RobertsSchool of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
A A TahraniInstitute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Electronic address: a.a.tahrani@bham.ac.uk.
writing group form Obesity UK
Obesity Empowerment Network
UK Association for the Study of Obesity

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansMental HealthObesityPandemicsPneumonia, ViralReferral and ConsultationSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32653052
PMCPMC7836765

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