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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

A Commentary on Blue Zones

Hannah R Marston, Kelly Niles-Yokum, Paula Alexandra Silva

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. 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
  2. Nutrition and longevity - diet in centenarians.Journal of translational medicine · 2026
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  11. Developing Indicators of Age-Friendliness in Taiwanese Communities through a Modified Delphi Method.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  13. A Policy Framework for Producing Age-Friendly Communities from the Perspective of Production of Space.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  14. Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: State of the Art and Future Perspectives.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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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

3 authors.

Hannah R MarstonHealth & Wellbeing Strategic Research Area, School of Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK7 6HH, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8018-4166
Kelly Niles-YokumDepartment of Health and Public Management, College of Business & Public Management, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA 91750, USA.
Paula Alexandra SilvaCentre for Informatics and Systems (CISUC), Department of Informatics Engineering (DEI), University of Coimbra, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-1573-7446

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper explores the intersection of the World Health Organization's (WHO) concepts of age-friendly communities and The Blue Zones

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Built EnvironmentEnvironment DesignTechnologyAgedForecastingHumansageingage in placecommunityCoronavirusCOVID-19gerontechnologyhuman centred designolder adultsrural planningsmart ecosystemsmart islandstechnology

Identifiers

PMID33478140
PMCPMC7844621

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