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ArticleJournal of managed care & specialty pharmacy2021

Direct medical costs of obesity in the United States and the most populous states.

John Cawley, Adam Biener, Chad Meyerhoefer, Yuchen Ding, Tracy Zvenyach, B Gabriel Smolarz, Abhilasha Ramasamy

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Article in Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 217 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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217citing papers in PubMed, 10 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

217 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 376 citations in OpenAlex.

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

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

John CawleyDepartment of Policy Analysis and Management and Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Adam BienerDepartment of Economics, Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
Chad MeyerhoeferCollege of Business, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
Yuchen Dingbluebird bio, Cambridge, MA.
Tracy ZvenyachIndependent Advisor, Healthcare and Obesity Public Policy, Madison, WI.
B Gabriel SmolarzNovo Nordisk, Plainsboro, NJ.
Abhilasha RamasamyNovo Nordisk, Plainsboro, NJ.
Novo Nordisk (United States) · USBluebird Bio (United States) · USLehigh University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultAgedCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleFloridaHealth Care CostsHumansMaleMiddle AgedNew YorkObesityPopulation DensityTexasUnited StatesYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID33470881
PMCPMC10394178
OpenAlexW3125193263

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