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ArticleMetabolism: clinical and experimental2021

Letter to the Editor: Vitamin D deficiency in COVID-19: Mixing up cause and consequence.

Joost Smolders, Jody van den Ouweland, Christopher Geven, Peter Pickkers, Matthijs Kox

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Article in Metabolism: clinical and experimental, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 5 of them syntheses 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.

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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Joost SmoldersDepartments of Immunology and Neurology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Jody van den OuwelandDepartment of Clinical Chemistry, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Christopher GevenDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Peter PickkersDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Matthijs KoxDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Electronic address: Matthijs.Kox@radboudumc.nl.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Vitamin D DeficiencyHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Vitamin DVitamin DCoronavirusCOVID-19CytokinesInflammationSARS-CoV-2Vitamin D

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PMID33217408
PMCPMC7671645

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