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SynthesisJournal of medical virology2021

Association between tuberculosis and COVID-19 severity and mortality: A rapid systematic review and meta-analysis.

Ya Gao, Ming Liu, Yamin Chen, Shuzhen Shi, Jie Geng, Jinhui Tian

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Synthesis in Journal of medical virology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
83citing papers in PubMed, 6 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

83 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Pathology of TB/COVID-19 Co-Infection: The phantom menace.Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2021
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  10. Crosstalk betweenFrontiers in immunology · 2026
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  11. Promising Prodiginins Biological Activities.Chemistry & biodiversity · 2025
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  15. Analysis of QuantiFERONNorthern clinics of Istanbul · 2025
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  16. Status and outlook of pulmonary tuberculosis coinfection.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2025
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23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ya GaoEvidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Ming LiuEvidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Yamin ChenEvidence-Based Nursing Center, School of Nursing, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Shuzhen ShiEvidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Jie GengDepartment of General Surgery, The Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Jinhui TianEvidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0054-2454

Funding

Emergency Research Project of Key Laboratory of Evidence-based Medicine and Knowledge Translation of Gansu Province GSEBMKT-2020YJ01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19HumansRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2Severity of Illness IndexTuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID32687228
PMCPMC7405273

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