Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33460569›Full record

ArticleThe Lancet. Respiratory medicine2021

Assessing the importance of interleukin-6 in COVID-19.

Luke Y C Chen, Ryan L Hoiland, Sophie Stukas, Cheryl L Wellington, Mypinder S Sekhon

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Article in The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luke Y C ChenDivision of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z1M9, Canada; Department of Medicine, Centre for Health Education Scholarship, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z1M9, Canada. Electronic address: lchen2@bccancer.bc.ca.
Ryan L HoilandDepartment of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z1M9, Canada; Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z1M9, Canada.
Sophie StukasDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, School of Biomedical Engineering, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z1M9, Canada.
Cheryl L WellingtonDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, School of Biomedical Engineering, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z1M9, Canada.
Mypinder S SekhonDivision of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z1M9, Canada.
University of British Columbia · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Interleukin-6HumansSARS-CoV-2Severity of Illness IndexInterleukin-6

Identifiers

PMID33460569
PMCPMC7836242
OpenAlexW3120542280

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