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ArticleBrain communications2020

In the blood: biomarkers for amyloid pathology and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease.

Jamie Toombs, Henrik Zetterberg

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Article in Brain communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Circulating Biomarkers for the Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  7. Tau kinetics in Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022
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  13. Biosensors-on-Chip: An Up-to-Date Review.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jamie ToombsCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, UK Dementia Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
Henrik ZetterbergUK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0062-0264

Funding

European Research Council 681181
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This scientific commentary refers to 'Plasma total-tau, neurofilament light chain and amyloid-β levels and risk of dementia: a population-based study' by de Wolf

Identifiers

PMID32954304
PMCPMC7425323

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